[R] Maximum value of two columns

Dale Steele dsteele at fastmail.fm
Thu May 11 05:41:06 CEST 2006


Hello -- Given the 10x2 matrix below, my goal is to create a vector
which contains the maximum of column 1 and column 2, or the only value
if there is an NA in one column.  I experimented with max.col without
success.  Thanks.  --Dale

> tmax.m
       tmaxhme tmaxer
  [1,]   101.0   99.8
  [2,]   102.5   99.0
  [3,]   100.6   98.4
  [4,]      NA  100.5
  [5,]   101.0   99.4
  [6,]      NA   97.6
  [7,]      NA   99.0
  [8,]    99.0   98.4
  [9,]      NA   98.5
 [10,]      NA   99.1




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