How to update a plot with two subplot in MATLAB? - matlab

Question

I have a function in MATLAB and it plots two curves and I run it two times.
On the first time plot main curve as you can see in the red color (first plot) and after that turn the "hold on" and execute my function again with the green color (second shape).
The problem is that the left subplot does not work and delete the first curve (red curve) but the second one works fine (last plot).
My main script is:
% some code to processing
...
roc('r.-',data); %this function plots my curves
and on the second run
% some code to processing
...
plot on
roc('g.-',data);
and my roc function contains:
%some code
...
subplot(1,2,1)
hold on
HCO1=plot(xroc(J),yroc(J),'bo');
hold off
legend([HR1,HRC1,HCO1],'ROC curve','Random classifier','Cut-off
point','Location','NorthOutside')
subplot(1,2,2)
hold on
HCO2=plot(1-xroc(J),yroc(J),'bo');
hold off
legend([HR2,HRC2,HCO2],'ROC curve','Random classifier','Cut-off
point','Location','NorthOutside')
disp(' ')
%....

Answer 1

Assuming your roc function calculates xroc and yroc I suggest you rewrite your code to modularize it
function [xroc,yroc] = roc(data)
%your algorithm or training code
%xroc=...
%yroc=...
end
this way your main script could be edited to something like this
%first run
[xroc1,yroc1] = roc(data);
%...some further processing with data variable
[xroc2,yroc2] = roc(data);
%plots
ax1 = subplot(1,2,1,'nextplot','add'); %create left axes
ax2 = subplot(1,2,2,'nextplot','add'); %create right axes (mirrored roc)
%now you can go ahead and make your plots
%first the not mirrored plots
plot(xroc1,yroc1,'r','parent',ax1);
plot(xroc2,yroc2,'g','parent',ax1);
%and then the mirrored plots
plot(1-xroc1,yroc1,'r','parent',ax2);
plot(1-xroc2,yroc2,'g','parent',ax2);
it is a little effort to rewrite but it surely will help to make your code scaleable to if you want to add more than just two curves in future.