R help - Oct 2001 - How to comment out multiple lines in R source code?

Hi,

Is there a way to comment out multiple lines at once in R source code like C
language's /* */ struct? 
This is quite useful when one is testing different sections of a source
code. 

Thanks,
Jonathan
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>>>>> "jl" == jonathan li <jonathan_li at
agilent.com> writes:
    jl> Hi, Is there a way to comment out multiple lines at once in R
    jl> source code like C language's /* */ struct? This is quite
    jl> useful when one is testing different sections of a source
    jl> code.

One alternative is to use editor macros for this.

(X)Emacs, when using ESS, supports comment-region and uncomment-region
commands.

best,
-tony

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At 07:33 11/10/01 +0100, Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, [iso-8859-1] G?ran Brostr?m wrote:
>
>> On 10 Oct 2001 rossini at blindglobe.net wrote:
>>
>> > >>>>> "jl" == jonathan li <jonathan_li
at agilent.com> writes:
>> >
>> >     jl> Hi, Is there a way to comment out multiple lines at
once in R
>> >     jl> source code like C language's /* */ struct? This is
quite
>> >     jl> useful when one is testing different sections of a
source
>> >     jl> code.
>> >
>> > One alternative is to use editor macros for this.
>> >
>> > (X)Emacs, when using ESS, supports comment-region and
uncomment-region
>> > commands.
>> >
>> > best,
>> > -tony
>>
>> You may also try
>>
>> if (FALSE){
>> ...
>> ...
>> }
>
>Yes, you will see that in e.g. the MASS scripts to comment out S code that
>does not (yet) work in R.
>
>One warning: in that method the `commented' code has to syntactically
>valid, and that has caught me more than once.   So I usually use ESS's
>methods.
In (X)Emacs, you can add a character at the beginning of several lines at
once by selecting a block of lines, and then typing C-x r t # (where you
can replace # by any other character or even a string; `C-x' means
`Ctrl-x'). This does not need ESS. You can even add the # in the middle of
the lines if your block selection starts at this point (in case you want to
comment out the right hand-side of a command... maybe not very usual).

BTW, the possibility to (un)comment out a block a R commands does not
appear in the ESS menu (it does in C-mode), and I did not find it in ESS's
doc (but I admit I did not read it all carefully).

Emmanuel Paradis

Emmanuel Paradis
Laboratoire de Pal?ontologie
Institut des Sciences de l'?volution
Universit? Montpellier II
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