R help - Dec 2011 - Help transforming a dist

I'd like to convert a dist into a table/matrix/thingy of the form:

A B value
A C value
B C value

(assuming the dist was over 3 names).

Is there a way to do this without using a for loop?

-- 
Taral <taralx at gmail.com>
"Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give
you."
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I'm not at all sure what you mean with your matrix: is that supposed to
be three columns? What about:
> fakedata <- data.frame(X=runif(3), Y = runif(3))
> rownames(fakedata) <- c("A", "B", "C")
> dist(fakedata)
          A         B
B 0.8617733
C 0.3813032 0.5124284
> data.frame(t(combn(rownames(fakedata), 2)), dist=as.vector(dist(fakedata)))
  X1 X2      dist
1  A  B 0.8617733
2  A  C 0.3813032
3  B  C 0.5124284

Sarah

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Taral <taralx at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'd like to convert a dist into a table/matrix/thingy of the form:
>
> A B value
> A C value
> B C value
>
> (assuming the dist was over 3 names).
>
> Is there a way to do this without using a for loop?
>
> --
> Taral <taralx at gmail.com>
> "Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give
you."
> ? ? -- Unknown
>

-- 
Sarah Goslee
http://www.functionaldiversity.org