Equivalent to rowMeans() for min()

Question

I have seen this question being asked multiple times on the R mailing list, but still could not find a satisfactory answer.

Suppose I a matrix m

Answer 1

library("sos")
findFn("rowMin")

gets a hit in the Biobase package, from Bioconductor ...

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("Biobase")

m <- matrix(rnorm(10000000), ncol=10)
system.time(rowMeans(m))
##   user  system elapsed 
##  0.132   0.148   0.279 
system.time(apply(m,1,min))
##   user  system elapsed 
## 11.825   1.688  13.603
library(Biobase)
system.time(rowMin(m))
##    user  system elapsed 
##  0.688   0.172   0.864 

Not as fast as rowMeans, but a lot faster than apply(...,1,min)