Can Roxygen really document R script (not a package) just like Doxygen does for C++?

Question

Roxygen is inspired by the Doxygen documentation system that is used by C, C++ programmers. I have used Doxygen and I find it really easy to document any program as long as

Answer 1

No, roxygen2 will work only for writing package documentation. Sounds to me you're after a report generating tool. You can use knitr for that. You can include code, comments, text, MathJax, or even use LaTeX. It also supports table of contents and references. This is by no means an exhaustive list of functionality. With some logical limitations, you can produce pdf and html documents, among others.