When I first read your question, I assumed this was not an acceptable answer:
clc, clear all; coordinates = [6,2;-4,8;-5,-1;3,-7]; disp(table(coordinates(:,1),coordinates(:,2),sqrt(coordinates(:,1).^2 + coordinates(:,2).^2),(acosd(coordinates(:,1)./sqrt(coordinates(:,1).^2 + coordinates(:,2).^2)) .* sign(coordinates(:,2))),'VariableNames',{'X coordinate','Y coordinate','Arm Length (in)','Arm Angle (degrees)'}));
However, you said: "Since I can put disp on the same line as clc, clear all", which suggests using semicolons to separate expressons on a single line is acceptable.
Regardles, I think the following accomplishes what you are trying to do, and does it fairly generically:
clc, clear, cellfun(@(coordinates) disp(table(coordinates(:,1),coordinates(:,2),sqrt(coordinates(:,1).^2 + coordinates(:,2).^2),(acosd(coordinates(:,1)./sqrt(coordinates(:,1).^2 + coordinates(:,2).^2)) .* sign(coordinates(:,2))),'VariableNames',{'X coordinate','Y coordinate','Arm Length (in)','Arm Angle (degrees)'})), {[6,2;-4,8;-5,-1;3,-7]})
There may be other ways to leverage the *fun family of functions (arrayfun, rowfun, cellfun, varfun).
Note: you can also do all sorts of tricks using eval, but that seems like it is cheating.
On this topic, you may find this series of blog posts interesting: Introduction to Functional Programming with Anonymous Functions: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
As an aside: clear all is overkill for most situations, and it can significantly slow down most scripts. For most purposes, clear is more than enough.
