[R] Question of programming style

[s-luppescu@uchicago.edu]

This is really a question of how to program this *BETTER*. It works as I have
done it, but is quite ugly. 

I want to do a 3d scatterplot of the upper triangle of a matrix, where the
z-values are the values in the matrix, and the row and column indices are the y-
and x-values. The complete (11 by 11) matrix is mmtop94.2. Here is my awkward
code:

mmtop94.2[lower.tri(mmtop94.2)] <- NA

# Here i is the row (y variable), j is the column (x var)
plotdata <- matrix(0, ncol=3, nrow=121)
for (i in 1:11)
  {
    for (j  in 1:11)
      {
        k <- (i-1) * 11 + j
        plotdata[k,] <- c(j, abs(i - 12), mmtop94.2[i, j])
      }
  }
plotdata2 <- na.omit(plotdata)

scatterplot3d(plotdata2, type='h')

It seems to me that I should not have to initialize the plotdata matrix. And
are all those for loops really necessary? 

Thanks in advance for the help.
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