[R] Block comment?

Suzen, Mehmet msuzen at gmail.com
Sat Sep 2 16:54:18 CEST 2017


AFAIK block comment is not possible
it needs to be implemented in R interpreter and defined in the
parser.'If' solution is not elegant.

On 2 September 2017 at 14:09, Uwe Ligges
<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>
>
> On 02.09.2017 11:40, Christian wrote:
>>
>> I consider it quite worth while to introduce into R syntax a nestable
>> block comment like
>>
>> #{
>> <block of code>
>> }#
>
>
> if(FALSE){
> <block of code>
> }
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>> It would make documentation more easily manageable and lucid.
>> Is there considerable need for this.
>>
>> Please, comment on this.
>> How about R core?
>>
>> Christian
>
>
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