[R] Sweave: R code in self defined TeX-commands

[Martin Posch]

Hi,

I need to produce a standard report for several variables in Sweave
and thus would need the possibility to define a TeX-command which includes 
R-code like

\newcommand{\meansd}[1]{The mean is \Sexpr{mean(#1)} and the standard 
deviation is  \Sexpr{sd(#1)} .
                      }
and then just write

\meansd{age}

in the latex code to get the whole sentence.


The above does not work, since Sweave ignores the \newcommand and does not 
expand the \statistics

Is there an alternative way to achieve this?

Thanks,
Martin Posch



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