[R] Matrix max by row

[Bert Gunter]

If speed is a consideration,availing yourself of the built-in pmax()
function via

do.call(pmax,data.frame(yourMatrix)) 

will be considerably faster for large matrices.

If you are puzzled by why this works, it is a useful exercise in R to figure
it out. 

Hint:The man page for ?data.frame says:
"A data frame is a list of variables of the same length with unique row
names, given class 'data.frame'."

Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Statistics

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
Behalf Of Wacek Kusnierczyk
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 5:22 PM
To: Ana M Aparicio Carrasco
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Matrix max by row

Ana M Aparicio Carrasco wrote:
> I need help about how to obtain the max by row in a matrix.
> For example if I have the following matrix:
> 2 5 3
> 8 7 2
> 1 8 4
>
> The max by row will be:
> 5
> 8
> 8
>   

matrix(apply(m, 1, max), nrow(m))

vQ

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