If you don't want to use the # before each comment line, you could try
something like defining a function which returns nothing and then type some
text after calling the function:
comm <- function(x) {invisible()}
comm("This is just a test,
trying to comment without typing the hashes"
)
But I don't recommend this kind of approach, what's wrong with the default
hashes everybody use?
Bart
Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote:
>
>> Hi Mihai,
>>
>> one (very bad style) way would be
>>
>> if (FALSE) {
>> comment
>> comment
>> comment
>> }
>>
>
> this works only if the enclosed text is syntactically valid r code. that
> is, you can't have multiline free text comments done this way, neither can
> you temporarily comment out unfinished and unparsable code.
>
> an extension to the parser that would accept multiline start-end comment
> tags, be it c-style /* */, perl-style =pod =cut, whatever, should be
> fairly trivial to implement. (the perl-style pod markup is particularly
> easy to parse, because it suffices to recognize '^=' on a line, no
> advanced pattern-matching needed.)
>
> somewhat surprising there is no such functionality there in r (or is there
> any?), it would be quite convenient.
>
> vQ
>
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