Re: [R] Block comment?

Is the reason you want a block comment containing code (as opposed to arbitrary text) that you want to be able to easily run the commented out code? If so the 'if()' construct has the advantage that you only need to change code at the start of the comment, not at both ends. The if(FALSE) could

Re: [R] Block comment?

I agree, since one reason for block commenting is to include syntactically-invalid information (such as broken code) in the source code. However, block commenting is not wholly a good thing, as both the R parser and human coders often find it challenging to identify where the end of the block

Re: [R] Block comment?

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 "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." --

Re: [R] Block comment?

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 wrote: > > > On 02.09.2017 11:40, Christian wrote: >> >> I consider it quite worth

Re: [R] Block comment?

On 02.09.2017 11:40, Christian wrote: I consider it quite worth while to introduce into R syntax a nestable block comment like #{ }# if(FALSE){ } Best, Uwe Ligges It would make documentation more easily manageable and lucid. Is there considerable need for this. Please, comment on

[R] Block comment?

I consider it quite worth while to introduce into R syntax a nestable block comment like #{ }# It would make documentation more easily manageable and lucid. Is there considerable need for this. Please, comment on this. How about R core? Christian -- Christian Hoffmann Rigiblickstrasse 15b