Command to assign the highest of two series

[Marc150]

Hi,

Is there a command to assign an observation the highest of two series?

So for example, suppose:
series a=1
series b=2

Is there then a command of the form
series c=@...(a,b)

which would return c=b, because b is greater than a?

In other languages the command 'max' often seems to do this. However, in EViews @max returns the maximum value within a vector.

Thanks,
Marc

[EViews Gareth]

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Series cc = @recode(a>b,a,b)

[Marc150]

Thank you.

What about in more general instances? For example, if I wanted to pull out the largest of a list of values, e.g., something of the form:

Series a=@...(b,c,..,z) that would assign a to be the highest of the values from b-z.

I suppose you could do some sort of nested for loop with the @recode command, but that seems unnecessarily complicated.

[EViews Gareth]

Put them in a group and use @rmax