[R] Block comments in R?

hadley wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Fri Oct 6 13:32:16 CEST 2006


> > Commenting code out and providing documentation comments are easily
> > done with a good editor, although R documentation comments really belong
> > in files where help() can find them.
>
>   R documentation comments belong in .Rd files at the moment, but how
> joyous would it be if they could be included in the .R files?

This is how I do al my package documentation, using a home-made
comment parser based on javadoc.  It doesn't cover all situations, but
it works well enough for me, and has dramatically increased the
quanity and quality of documentation that I write.

Hadley



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