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unit.pmin {grid}R Documentation

Parallel Unit Minima and Maxima

Description

Returns a unit object whose i'th value is the minimum (or maximum) of the i'th values of the arguments.

Usage

unit.pmin(...)
unit.pmax(...)

Arguments

...

One or more unit objects.

Details

The length of the result is the maximum of the lengths of the arguments; shorter arguments are recycled in the usual manner.

Value

A unit object.

Author(s)

Paul Murrell

Examples

max(unit(1:3, "cm"), unit(0.5, "npc"))
unit.pmax(unit(1:3, "cm"), unit(0.5, "npc"))

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