Re: [R] applying max elementwise to two vectors Please... use and **read** the docs: ?max   ---> pmax  Bert Gunter -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Afshartous, David Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:20 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] applying max elementwise to two vectors   All, Is there one liner way to obtain the max per observation for two vectors? I looked at apply and lapply but it seems that groundwork would have to be done before applying either of those.  The code below does it but seems like overkill. Thanks! Dave x = rnorm(10) y = rnorm(10) ind = which(x < y) z = x z[ind] <- y[ind]  ## z now contains the max's ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.