You can also do apply(max,list);
Dan
Neilen Marais wrote:
>Hi
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>I'm trying to find the largest item in a list. I.e. [5,3,7,2] -> 7.
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>It seems the max() routine doesn't work on lists, but expects you to
>pass
>the items in individually. Is
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>lreduce(max, [5,3,7,2]);
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>the best way to achieve this?
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>Thanks
>Neilen
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