Use max on each element of a matrix

Question

> x <- array(-10:10, dim=c(4,5))
> x
     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
[1,]  -10   -6   -2    2    6
[2,]   -9   -5   -1    3    7
[3,]   -8   -4    0    4    8         


        

Answer 1

It appears that the order of the arguments to pmax() affects the class of what is returned when the input is a matrix:

pmax(0,x)
[1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

pmax(x,0)
     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
[1,]    0    0    0    2    6
[2,]    0    0    0    3    7
[3,]    0    0    0    4    8
[4,]    0    0    1    5    9