I find myself needing this most frequently in making graphics in R. The scales package has squish() with the same behavior: squish(25, c(5, 10)) => 10 squish

I find myself needing this most frequently in making graphics in R. The scales package has squish() with the same behavior: squish(25, c(5, 10)) => 10 squish(6, c(5, 10)) => 6 squish(1, c(5, 10)) => 5 If you don't provide the limits it defaults to c(0, 1). That's because this function exists to map to a 0-to-1 range for functions that then map the [0, 1] range to a color ramp.