R help - Dec 2010 - how to find smallest non-negative and biggest non-positive number in a matrix column ?

so it could be zero in both cases when given column has 0 set in it
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Hi

x<-rnorm(20)
max(x[x<=0])
[1] -0.1028260
x<-c(x,0)

max(x[x<=0])
min(x[x>=0])

AFAIK there is no other number fulfilling both criteria other than zero. 
So if you want both criteria to be true (as your "and" suggests), just
check if there is zero.

Regards
Petr


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