Folding roxygen2 comments

[ngreifer]

I'm using roxygen2 to document my packages. A feature of roxygen2 is that the roxygen comments must be in the same file as the function they are documenting. This adds clutter to my code, especially when I have multiple functions and roxygen documentation comments in the same .R file.

I'm wondering if it would be possible to have code folding operate on roxygen comment blocks so they can be folded away and thereby not clutter the scripting workspace. I'm imagining it would work similar to how folding occurs around {...}, where the open brace marks the beginning of a folding section, but instead a roxygen comment would be the indicator. If implemented, it would be nice if the Folding option in the Edit dropdown would include these folded elements as well.

Thank you!

[ronblum]

@ngreifer Thank you for the suggestion! We'll review and consider it as we continue developing RStudio.

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[karlmakepeace]

Possible in 2022? Not yet (February) it seems.

[ronblum]

@karlmakepeace I'll reopen the issue, since you've raised that there's still interest in this. Unfortunately, I can't provide an answer and when this might be done. However, one way in which we prioritize requests is by the number of upvotes we get in the original post. It looks like there are currently ten. You can even recruit more folks to upvote this request—the more upvotes this gets, the more likely it is to be implemented!