title: R: Comment out block of code
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1231195/r-multiline-comment-workarounds">R: Multiline Comment Workarounds?</a>  </p>
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  <p>I want to comment out several lines of code in R. Is there any way of doing it without having to put a # before each line - sort of like <code>/* blocked out code */</code> in SAS?</p>