title: I want to select the greater of the two values from two columns in R
body: <p>My data looks like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>head(myframe)
        id fwt_r fwt_l
  [1,] 101    72    52
  [2,] 102    61    48
  [3,] 103    46    49
  [4,] 104    48    41
  [5,] 105    51    42
  [6,] 106    49    35
  </code></pre>
  
  
  
  <p>I want to select the greater of the two values among fwt_r and fwt_l.
  I want the output like: </p>
  
  <pre><code>72
  61
  49
  48
  51
  49
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Kindly help me out. Thanks!</p>