R help - Sep 2011 - Comments inside a line? Not possible?

Hello!
In the guidelines I've read:

"Comment your code. Entire commented lines should begin with # and one
space.
Short comments can be placed after code preceded by two spaces, #, and
then one space. "

Just wondering if there is no way to comment something out "in the
middle" of a line? Example:
Original code:
mystrings<-c("a","b","c")

Desired commented code:
mystrings<-c("a", # want "b" to be commented out, but not
"c" # "c")
So that it is read as: mystrings<-c("a","c")

Not possible?
Thanks!

-- 
Dimitri Liakhovitski
marketfusionanalytics.com

On Sep 9, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski wrote:
> Hello!
> In the guidelines I've read:
>
> "Comment your code. Entire commented lines should begin with # and  
> one space.
> Short comments can be placed after code preceded by two spaces, #, and
> then one space. "
>
> Just wondering if there is no way to comment something out "in the
> middle" of a line? Example:
> Original code:
> mystrings<-c("a","b","c")
>
> Desired commented code:
> mystrings<-c("a", # want "b" to be commented out,
but not "c" # "c")
> So that it is read as: mystrings<-c("a","c")
>
> Not possible?
Not possible. Comments are ended by newlines. And why would you not  
want:

mystrings<-c("a", # want "b" to be commented out, but not
"c"
              "c")

--

David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

On 09/09/2011 12:21 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski wrote:
> Hello!
> In the guidelines I've read:
>
> "Comment your code. Entire commented lines should begin with # and one
space.
> Short comments can be placed after code preceded by two spaces, #, and
> then one space. "
Which guidelines are those?  They seem reasonable, but they put more 
restrictions on comments than the parser enforces.  In particular, the 
spaces are irrelevant.  If you have a # symbol in the line, not in a 
quoted string, it starts a comment that runs to the end of the line.

Duncan Murdoch
> Just wondering if there is no way to comment something out "in the
> middle" of a line? Example:
> Original code:
> mystrings<-c("a","b","c")
>
> Desired commented code:
> mystrings<-c("a", # want "b" to be commented out,
but not "c" # "c")
> So that it is read as: mystrings<-c("a","c")
>
> Not possible?
> Thanks!
>