2 files changed, 21 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/nim.html.markdown b/nim.html.markdown
index 07674532..30dfa94f 100644
--- a/nim.html.markdown
+++ b/nim.html.markdown
@@ -12,6 +12,25 @@ that gives the programmer power without compromises on runtime efficiency.
 Nim is efficient, expressive, and elegant.
 
 ```nim
+# Single-line comments start with a #
+
+#[
+  Multi-line comments begin with a #[
+  ... and end with ]#
+
+They don't care about indentation
+
+  #[
+  and they can be nested
+  ]#
+
+]#
+
+discard """
+This can also work as a multiline comment.
+Or for unparsable, broken code
+"""
+
 var                     # Declare (and assign) variables,
   letter: char = 'n'    # with or without type annotations
   lang = "N" & "im"
@@ -35,10 +54,6 @@ when compileBadCode:            # `when` is a compile time `if`
 discard 1 > 2 # Note: The compiler will complain if the result of an expression
               # is unused. `discard` bypasses this.
 
-discard """
-This can work as a multiline comment.
-Or for unparsable, broken code
-"""
 
 #
 # Data Structures
diff --git a/r.html.markdown b/r.html.markdown
index 7a94ba05..e7486e60 100644
--- a/r.html.markdown
+++ b/r.html.markdown
@@ -663,7 +663,8 @@ require(plyr)
 
 # "pets.csv" is a file on the internet
 # (but it could just as easily be a file on your own computer)
-pets <- read.csv("http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/pets.csv")
+require(RCurl)
+pets <- read.csv(textConnection(getURL("http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/pets.csv")))
 pets
 head(pets, 2) # first two rows
 tail(pets, 1) # last row