[R] Comments inside a line? Not possible?

[David Winsemius]

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")

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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT