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I am using VS 2017 with R Tools for Visual Studio, and I wonder if there is a way to create expandable code sections such as in RStudio:

#### My region ####
[...]
####           ####

I also tried #region and #endregion, which used to work with some others of the "Tools for Visual studio", but without success.

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I finally found out that to define a new code region, you must write a line that matches the following pattern (regex): ^\s*#.*---\s*$.

  • Zero or more leading whitespace characters
  • One hash #
  • Any character, zero or more times
  • Three hyphens - (and not 4 hyphens, hashs or equal signs like in RStudio)
  • Zero or more trailing whitespace characters

By beginning another section, it will end the previous one and make it a block you can collapse.

So for instance you can make a new section like this:

# My section ---
    [...]
# ---
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  • but how do you end the section? Adding `# My section ---` to my code means *My section* goes to the end of my script. – lebelinoz Aug 10 '17 at 06:16
  • By beginning another section, it will end the previous one and make it a block you can collapse, see the edit. – Antoine C. Aug 10 '17 at 07:34