Hey Mark, I am sure there are other ways but one way would be:
data <- cbind(x,y) #put the two vectors in a matrix > apply(data, 1, min) # use apply() to apply min() to each row [1] 2 4 4 4 3 4 4 1 4 4 Best regards, Josh On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Mark Na <mtb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have two vectors of length = 10 > > x<-c(2,14,79,27,3,126,15,1,12,4) > y<-rep(4,10) > > and I would like to create a third vector of length = 10 that contains the > smallest value at each position in the two above vectors. > > I have tried: > > z<-min(x,y) > > but that doesn't work. > > With the example data above, the third vector would look like this. > > > z > [1] 2 4 4 4 3 4 4 1 4 4 > > Any help with this would be much appreciated, thanks! > > mark > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Joshua Wiley Senior in Psychology University of California, Riverside http://www.joshuawiley.com/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
