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...ears inelegant to me. Is there a better way to do this? I have tried to do my homework, see below. Do I get partial credit ;-) ? Thank you all for your time! Stephan ######################################### I can't simply start a for loop within an R chunk and finish it in another one. whiledo in the ifthen.sty package doesn't like Sweave at all. And of course, it would simply reuse the R chunks if it did work, without changing things between loops. For the same reason, I cannot define a \newcommand{\loopcontent}{...} with the entire loop contents and then simply write \loopcontent \...