Adding Comments to R Code in Sweave - r

Question

I am working on a document about R software, which is currently stored in a Rnw file to eventually process it with Sweave. The document contains several R code chunks, of the usual form:
<<>>=
R Code
#
Next to some code lines, I would like to add specific comments, which I would like to be displayed like usual LaTeX text (so that they are easily recognizable as comments). Is there a way to display R code chunks and corresponding comments next to each other when using sweave or knitR?
Thank you for your help!

Answer 1

If you want the to be formatted like code (I assume that is what you mean) you can use the following code:
\begin{filecontents*}{my_r_code_test.r}
R code
#
|\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{example-image}|
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{listings,mdframed}
\lstset{
language=R,
backgroundcolor=\color{black!5}, % set backgroundcolor
basicstyle=\footnotesize\ttfamily,% basic font setting
columns=fullflexible,
}
\begin{document}
\begin{mdframed}[backgroundcolor=black!5,linewidth=0pt,%
innerleftmargin=0pt,innertopmargin=0pt,innerbottommargin=0pt]
\lstinputlisting[escapeinside=||]{my_r_code_test.r}
\end{mdframed}
\end{document}
Which produces
at the top of the page.
Hope this helps!