Replace NA <ith corresponding value in another column

Hello guys ! It might seems to be really easy to you but i'm struggling to find a way to replace every NA of a column with the corresponding value in another column.
_ Q1 _ Q2
1 23 NA
2 46 65
3 34 NA
4 67 54
...
In this exemple i'd like to replace NA from ligne one with 23, and NA from ligne 3 with 34.

Thank you in advance !

Happy new year to you

Happy new year.

dat <- data.frame(
  Q1 =
    c(23, 46, 34, 67),
  Q2 =
    c(NA, 65, NA, 54))

the_na <- which(is.na(dat[2]))
dat[the_na,2] <- dat[the_na,1]

dat
#>   Q1 Q2
#> 1 23 23
#> 2 46 65
#> 3 34 34
#> 4 67 54

Or in Tidyverse and using coalesce

dat  <- dat %>% 
      mutate(Q2 = coalesce(Q2,Q1))
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