Hello there,
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Sun, 11 May 2008, Esmail Bonakdarian wrote:
Stephan Kolassa wrote:
Have you tried successively removing/commenting parts of the script
before the sample() command until the problem goes away? That way you
should be able to pinpoint the offending script command.
Hi,
This brings up a question I have .. is there a way to do *block* comments
with scripts? A la /* ... */ like it's done in Java or C/C++? Ie comment
more than just one line at a time.
From what I have read this is not possible in R (at least not easily),
but
I am eager for someone to contradict me :-)
if(FALSE) {
...
}
Any good editor can do block commenting, e.g. ESS.
You didn't tell us what you read, but I have never seen this in a
reputable source.
I don't remember the source as I was reading widely all over the place
trying to get up to speed with R in a hurry (having found this group
was one of the best sources).
What I read doesn't seem to be incorrect however (it may even have been an
archived message here), the *language* itself does not seem to support block
*comments*. Using conditional constructs, or an IDE/editor to achieve similar
results is a work around - but not the same. I don't mean to nitpick, but
as a computer scientist I see this as different :-)
I'll have to look at ESS though.
Thanks,
Esmail
ps: Ah, I seem Meta-; works as a toggle in emacs/ESS .. thanks for encouraging
me to look at that some more.
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