Capping each member in an r array

Question

I'm new to R and I have losses data:

losses=c(25,250,5,17,2,195,12,8,75,5,50,1);

How to cap each member of the list at 150? Namely how to perform min(150,x) for each member of the list?

Then I want to cap all losses at 'amount of insurance' array:

aoi=c(150,250,100,125,300,200,80,250,100,350,500,120) 

Answer 1

See ?pmin, or parallel minima calculation:

pmin(150,losses)
#[1]  25 150   5  17   2 150  12   8  75   5  50   1

If you need to do this multiple times, it would be beneficial to collect your variables in a data.frame or list. E.g.:

dat <- data.frame(losses,aoi)
data.frame(Map(pmin,dat,150))

#   losses aoi
#1      25 150
#2     150 150
#3       5 100
#etc...