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Multiple-Line Comment (PR#13503)

2 messages · Udo.Junghans at nw-fva.de, Kasper Daniel Hansen

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Hello,

sorry for writing here because my problem is not a realt bug but may be 
a solution for many people working with R:

I miss the feature for commenting some lines of code at once without 
writing a bunch of "#" in front of each line.
This is interesting for trying out some code.
I found some workarounds like

IFELSE(FALSE){} and

`!`<- function(x)
  {
    if (inherits(x, "character") == FALSE)
    .Primitive("!")(x) else invisible(x)
   }

but IFELSE needs valid code and the '!' <- function breaks when a " ' " 
appears in the comment

so it would be fine to have something like /* ...  */ or so  for 
multiple lines


with regards

Udo Junghans
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(no cc to r-bugs)

One obvious work around is to use an editor that lets you comment/ 
uncomment many lines of code at once. ESS/Emacs for example, has this  
feature. Many other editors do as well. I actually find it easier to  
see what is commented out this way.

Clearly this does not address the question as written though.

Kasper
On Feb 5, 2009, at 3:30 , Udo.Junghans at nw-fva.de wrote: