How to find pairwise minimum and maximum values from two R vectors

Question

Using two vectors, I want to generate a third vector that should have pairwise maximum values from two vectors. Is there any R function to find the pairwise minimum and maximum from two vectors?

E.g.

 a = c(10,1,2,31,41,14,15)

 b = c(11,0,5,32,40,12,19)

Result for max = 11  1  5 32 41 14 19

Answer 1

You can use the pmin() function to find the pairwise minimum value in two vectors.

To find the pairwise maximum, you can use the pmax() function.

Example:

> a = c(10,1,2,31,41,14,15)
> b = c(11,0,5,32,40,12,19)
> pmin(a,b)
[1] 10  0  2 31 40 12 15
> pmax(a,b)
[1] 11  1  5 32 41 14 19