[R] Multi-line comments?

[Paul Hiemstra]

Erik Iverson schreef:
> What editor are you all using to write R code?  Many will have ways of doing what you want, e.g., comment-region (bound  by default to M-; through comment-dwim) in Emacs. 
>   
I use Kate, the advanced text editor in KDE.
Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Michael Knudsen
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 9:55 AM
> To: Mark Knecht
> Cc: r-help
> Subject: Re: [R] Multi-line comments?
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Mark Knecht<markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>   I wanted to comment out 20 lines that I'm moving to a function but
>> didn't want to delete them. Is there no defined way to get around
>> using a # on each of the 20 lines?
>>     
>
> Just like you, I have been longing for that myself. It seems that the
> answer is negative, so I have ended up using
>
> if (1==0)
> {
>    # code goes here
> }
>
> although is not really nice to look at.
>
>