r - Compute the minimum of a pair of vectors

Question

If I have a vector c(1,2,3) and another vector of the same length c(1,4,1) . Is there some way to find the minimum of each pair of numbers in the list pair? i.e. have a function that returns c(1,2,1)` I don't want to use any apply function or loops because my vectors will be very big and looping through them would take a long time.

Answer 1

You want pmin():

> x <- c(1,2,3)
> y <- c(1,4,1)
> pmin(x,y)
[1] 1 2 1