Filling a vector with other vectors

Question

What I'd like to do is create a vector and filling it with values from other vectors. Namely: I have:

a <- c(NA, 1, NA, 2, NA)
b <- c(1, NA, 4, NA, 5)

I want to end with something like:

c <- c(1,1,4,2,5)

These values may change every time I run the code and the length of the two first vectors may change, but the third one is always the same.

Possible duplicate - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19253820/how-to-implement-coalesce-efficiently-in-r — thelatemail, May 31 '21 at 23:23

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 31 '21 at 23:02

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We can use coalesce

library(dplyr)
c1 <- coalesce(a, b)

Or in base R either pmin/pmax can be used as long as both corresponding elements are non-NA

pmin(a, b, na.rm = TRUE)
[1] 1 1 4 2 5

answered May 31 '21 at 23:02

akrun

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