[Rd] Multi-line comments in R

2015-08-19 Thread Nathan Esau
I was wondering why the decision was made long ago to never implement multi-line comments in R. I feel there are several argument to be made for why the R language should have multi-line comments. 1. Many programming languages (including some which are commonly used for statistics, such as python,

Re: [Rd] Multi-line comments in R

2015-08-19 Thread Simon Urbanek
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help//2009-February/381039.html > On Aug 19, 2015, at 12:16 AM, Nathan Esau wrote: > > I was wondering why the decision was made long ago to never implement > multi-line comments in R. I feel there are several argument to be made for > why the R language should