# How to find row minimum for an R data frame?

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Data analysis is a difficult task because it has so much variation in terms of the smaller objectives of a big project. One of the smallest tasks could be finding the minimum value in each row contained in a data frame. For this purpose, we cam use apply function and pass the FUN argument as min so that we can get minimum values.

Consider the below data frame −

## Example

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set.seed(101)
x1<-rpois(20,1)
x2<-rpois(20,2)
x3<-rpois(20,5)
df1<-data.frame(x1,x2,x3)
df1

## Output

  x1 x2 x3
1 1 3 4
2 0 5 5
3 1 1 6
4 1 2 4
5 0 4 4
6 0 3 3
7 1 0 2
8 0 1 8
9 1 2 7
10 1 2 2
11 2 2 2
12 1 1 4
13 1 1 6
14 3 1 6
15 1 2 5
16 1 4 7
17 2 1 6
18 0 3 5
19 1 0 6
20 0 4 5

Creating a new column Min for minimum of each row −

df2

## Output

  y1 y2 y3 y4 Minimum
1  8  9  9  3 3
2  4  4  6  5 4
3  0  1  8  2 0
4  2  8  8  4 2
5  9  1  8  6 1
6  8  4  4  1 1
7  2  2  1  3 1
8  9  8  6  3 3
9  3  9  8  8 3
10 1  6  9  8 1
11 0  3  4  2 0
12 5  0 7 6 0
13 8  7  4 7 4
14 1  3  5 2 1
15 1  7  8 1 1
16 0  9  5 5 0
17 5  9  8 0 0
18 5  3  2 3 2
19 1  3  9 7 1
20 8  2  6 2 2
Updated on 10-Oct-2020 13:03:37