[R] How to comment out multiple lines in R source code?

[Göran Broström]

On 10 Oct 2001 rossini at blindglobe.net wrote:

> >>>>> "jl" == jonathan li <jonathan_li at agilent.com> writes:
>
>     jl> Hi, Is there a way to comment out multiple lines at once in R
>     jl> source code like C language's /* */ struct? This is quite
>     jl> useful when one is testing different sections of a source
>     jl> code.
>
> One alternative is to use editor macros for this.
>
> (X)Emacs, when using ESS, supports comment-region and uncomment-region
> commands.
>
> best,
> -tony

You may also try

if (FALSE){
...
...
}

Göran

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