{dplyr}'s between cannot take multiple values vectors for left/right boundaries

between_caveat

> between(c(5,6), left = c(1,4), right = c(2,10))
[1] FALSE FALSE


> tibble(val = c(5,6), min_threshold = c(1,4), max_threshold = c(2,10)) %>% 
  mutate(is_in_range = between(val, min_threshold, max_threshold))
# A tibble: 2 x 4
    val min_threshold max_threshold is_in_range
  <dbl>         <dbl>         <dbl> <lgl>      
1     5             1             2 FALSE      
2     6             4            10 FALSE 


> tibble(val = c(5,6), min_threshold = c(1,4), max_threshold = c(2,10)) %>% 
  rowwise() %>% 
  mutate(is_in_range = between(val, min_threshold, max_threshold))
# A tibble: 2 x 4
# Rowwise: 
    val min_threshold max_threshold is_in_range
  <dbl>         <dbl>         <dbl> <lgl>      
1     5             1             2 FALSE      
2     6             4            10 TRUE