I have two dataframes with two columns df1$Credits and df2$Credits.

I want to construct an ifelse statement that if df2$Credits is lower than df1$Credits than it automatically defaults to df1$Credits.

So far I have something like this

ifelse(df2$CreditTY < df1$CreditTY, df2$CreditTY <- df1$CreditTY, df2$CreditTY)

Would something like this work?

I tried using the above ifelse statement but it seems to default to the lower version