On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:

[...]

> I looked in all the code for the Hmisc and Design packages and didn't find a
> single example where pmin or pmax did not have 2 arguments. So I think it is
> important to have pmin2 and pmax2.

Why? Do you have any reason to suppose that these will be significantly
faster than the general case of 1 or more arguments? (The current code
fails obscurely for 0 args.)

What I am playing with are fast internal pmin.int and pmax.int for the
case of all atomic vectors and no classes.

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