[R] Block comment?

[Bert Gunter]

Uwe showed an R code -ish way to do it. RStudio and probably other R UI's
and IDE's -- which is the way most folks write code, I think -- also make
it easy to do.

Cheers,
Bert




Bert Gunter

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On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Suzen, Mehmet <msuzen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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