[R] how to comment off sections

[Joshua Wiley]

I use XEmacs + ESS, and looking for ways to add text to a region of
code, I see it is quite easy
with C-x r t.  Thanks for your great advice.

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Erik Iverson <eriki at ccbr.umn.edu> wrote:
> On 07/16/2010 06:59 PM, Joshua Wiley wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there an way to easy comment of sections of code?  I was thinking
>> something along the lines of
>>
>> \dontrun{
>> codeline 1
>> ....
>> codeline k
>> }
>>
>> but that could be used in regular script files.  When I am still
>> working on a script, I often want to being using what is done, but I
>> would like the parts I am still working on not to be run when I use
>> source() on the file.  I can set everything off with #, but that gets
>> to be tedious.
>
> What editor do you use to edit R scripts?  Many will have a way to add a
> comment character to each line of a highlighted region of code with one
> command.
>



-- 
Joshua Wiley
Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles
http://www.joshuawiley.com/