Hello, I know this has been discussed, but I haven't found an answer in the archives. Basically, I'd like to be able to comment out chunks of code (which may or may not be syntactically correct) without having to put the # symbol in front of each line (and, if possible, without having to adopt a new text editor). My current R setup (XP) is very simple. I always have three windows open: the R console, my working directory, and a Notepad window containing my program. Adopting Tinn-R would probably solve this problem, but for simplicity I'd rather not move beyond Notepad (if possible). Thanks for any help you can provide, Mark
On 24/09/2008 4:03 PM, Mark Na wrote:> Hello, > > I know this has been discussed, but I haven't found an answer in the > archives. Basically, I'd like to be able to comment out chunks of code > (which may or may not be syntactically correct) without having to put > the # symbol in front of each line (and, if possible, without having to > adopt a new text editor). > > My current R setup (XP) is very simple. I always have three windows > open: the R console, my working directory, and a Notepad window > containing my program. Adopting Tinn-R would probably solve this > problem, but for simplicity I'd rather not move beyond Notepad (if > possible). > > Thanks for any help you can provide,I think there is no solution that lives within your constraints. If you keep syntactic correctness, you can wrap blocks in if (FALSE) { ... } If you switch to a real editor, adding the # prefix to each line would not be a problem. Duncan Murdoch
just a thought: you might want to have a look at the brew package (R- forge). Instead of source()ing the document in the R console, you'd use brew(). By default, any text is considered a comment, only lines contained between <% %> will be run as R code. baptiste On 24 Sep 2008, at 21:03, Mark Na wrote:> Hello, > > I know this has been discussed, but I haven't found an answer in the > archives. Basically, I'd like to be able to comment out chunks of > code (which may or may not be syntactically correct) without having > to put the # symbol in front of each line (and, if possible, without > having to adopt a new text editor). > > My current R setup (XP) is very simple. I always have three windows > open: the R console, my working directory, and a Notepad window > containing my program. Adopting Tinn-R would probably solve this > problem, but for simplicity I'd rather not move beyond Notepad (if > possible). > > Thanks for any help you can provide, > > Mark > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.