How can I have R skip over one segment embedded in a wider line of code?-CodePudding

How can I have R skip over one segment embedded in a wider line of code? In the code below, I would like for R to compute the operations for var1 and var3.

df <- df %>% 
  mutate(newvar= df$var1   df$var2   df$var3)

To note: I get I could use # to have R ignore all the line, but I just want it to ignore df$var2

Thank you,

CodePudding user response：

Format the line differently and commenting works:

df <- df %>% 
  mutate(newvar= 
           df$var1 
           df$var2 
           df$var3
        )

Now you can comment out any of the parts, e.g.

df <- df %>% 
  mutate(newvar= 
           df$var1 
#          df$var2 
           df$var3
        )

Normally it's a bad idea to put operators at the start of a line instead of the end because R might think the previous line ends the whole statement, but in this the parens around the whole thing mean that's not an issue.