[R] abbreviate

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Omar Lakkis wrote:

>> p = data.frame(high=c(5,2), settle=c(3,4))
>> p
>  high settle
> 1    5      3
> 2    2      4
>
> What is the most abbreviated way to apply:
> if (p$high < p$settle) p$high = p$settle
>
> I want to modify p to become:
>> p
>  high settle
> 1    5      3
> 2    4      4

p[[1]] <- pmax(p[[1]], p[[2]])

seems to need a rather small number of keystrokes at the expense of 
readability (I would otherwise use p$high etc).

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