Multiline Comment Workarounds?

Question

I (sort of) already know the answer to this question. But I figured it is one that gets asked so frequently on the R Users list, that there should be one solid good answer.

Answer 1

Apart from using the overkilled way to comment multi-line codes just by installing RStudio, you can use Notepad++ as it supports the syntax highlighting of R

(Select multi-lines) -> Edit -> Comment/Uncomment -> Toggle Block Comment

Note that you need to save the code as a .R source first (highlighted in red)