xaxis/yaxis lines in matlab plot - matlab

couldn't find this:
I would like to plot a line on X and Y axis that always fits to 100% to the width or height of the figure.
figure; hold on;
plot(rand(1,100));
line(xlim,[.5 .5],'Color','red');
line([50 50],ylim,'Color','red');
pause(.5)
xlim([1 200]);% lines should now automatically extend
with grid on it's possible to get a grid that scales automatically, however it seems impossible to only limit the grid to the X/Y axes. Ideas?
after scaling:
what I would prefer:

The functions xline
and yline
were introduced in MATLAB R2018b, and do exactly as you need.
Furthermore, it is possible to add a (text) label to the line.

figure;
plot([1:10]);
set(gca, 'position', [0 0 1 1]);

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Which type of MATLAB plot would produce spikes on a curve based on certain condition?

I have a 29736 x 6 table in MATLAB. The 6th column of the table consists of zeroes and ones. I would like a plot between the Sample No (1 to 29736 of Table) and the 6th column (ones and zeroes), such that there is a nice spike whenever a 1 occurs and a regular curve when 0 occurs. Can someone suggest what line of code/function can do this, and how to systematically go about it?
EDIT:
I used the following code and got an unwanted result (a solid blue block):
stem(table_fault_test_data.Fault_Condition, 'Marker', 'none');
set(gca, 'YLim', [0 2]); % Adjust the y-axis range
I basically want to refer to the 6th column of my table which contains ones and zeroes, and plot spikes for only the ones.
Are you perhaps looking for a stem plot? You can make one without a marker, so you get spikes for ones and zero for zeroes:
data = rand(1, 100) < 0.2; % Some random sample data
stem(data, 'Marker', 'none'); % Make the stem plot
set(gca, 'YLim', [0 2]); % Adjust the y-axis range

How to merge different plot but same y axis in matlab

I'm always see this kind of graph in XRD plot:
and i'm wondering how they do that?, if you have different XRD plot and assuming having the same y axis, can matlab do this? thanks.
Here is a way to do it.You can customize it as you want, but this should hopefully get you going.
First create an axes and change its position/size inside the figure, shifting it upward to make room for the 2nd axes as well as removing the x and y labels that you don't want. Then create a 2nd axes with specified position/size to make it fit below the 1st one.
Sample code:
clear
clc
%// Generate dummy data
x = 1:2:100;
y1 = rand(1,numel(x));
figure;
%// Make an axes and set its position
haxes1 = axes('Position',[.1 .1 .8 .7],'Color',[1 1 1])
%// Plot 1st curve
plot(x,y1,'Parent',haxes1)
%// Remove box and labels
box off
set(gca,'XTickLabel','','XTick',[],'YTick',[])
hold on
%// Get current axes position. You set it so you could get the parameters
%// directly as well.
axes1Pos = get(gca,'Position');
%// Shift 1st axes upward
set(gca,'Position',[axes1Pos(1) 2.6*axes1Pos(2) axes1Pos(3) axes1Pos(4)])
%// Change the poisition/size of the 2nd axes to fit below the 1st one
haxes2 = axes('Position',[axes1Pos(1) axes1Pos(2)/2.5 axes1Pos(3) axes1Pos(4)/2.5]) ;
%// Use linspace to generate colored points to use with scatter.
c = linspace(1,10,length(x));
%// Add 2nd plot and keep only x label
scatter(x,rand(1,numel(x)),40,c,'filled')
set(gca,'YTick',[])
box off
%// Place a ylabel for both axes
text(-4, 1.7,'Super nice y label','rotation',90,'FontSize',16,'HorizontalAlignment','center')
Sample output:
There are other ways to do this as well.
Hope that helps!

How to get variable scales on y axis for same graph in matlab plotting?

I am working on matlab programming, my problem is that in the same graph on y axis i need to have variable scaling, for example from 0.1 to 1 i need to have a gap between scales 0.1, but after 1 I need to have scale gap of 2, is there some command available for the same?
There is an example by The Mathworks on Matlab answers which does pretty much what you want to achieve. The idea is to create 2 axes on the same figure and use one axes to plot some data (eg. for the 0.1:0.1:1 tick marks) and the rest on the other axes. Then you overlay both axes with a transparent background:
%Create two overlapping axes
axes_handle_1 = axes;
axes_position = get(axes_handle_1, 'Position');
axes_handle_2 = axes('Position', axes_position);
%Create some data with a large gap in the x domain
my_x_data = [1:10 25:35];
my_y_data = rand(1, length(my_x_data));
%Plot the two sections of data on different axes objects
plot(axes_handle_1, my_x_data(1:10), my_y_data(1:10))
plot(axes_handle_2, my_x_data(11:end), my_y_data(11:end))
%Link the y axis limits and fontsize property of the axes objects
linkaxes([axes_handle_1 axes_handle_2], 'y');
linkprop([axes_handle_1 axes_handle_2], 'FontSize');
%Set the x range limits and tick mark positions of the first axes object
set(axes_handle_1, 'XLim', [1 21], ...
'XTick', [1 5 10])
%Set the x range limits and tick mark positions for the second axes object.
%Also set the background color to 'none', which makes the background
%transparent.
set(axes_handle_2, 'Color', 'none', ...
'YTickLabel', [], ...
'XLim', [14 35], ...
'XTick', [25 30 35])
It's quite straightforward and to my knowledge there is no built-in way to do it otherwise, except maybe with submissions from the File Exchange. Anyhow if you have questions about the above code please ask!
Please use gca property of matlab. In gca you can set a variable as your scales. Make that variable by merging two different scales
x=[1:80];
y=[.1:.1:8];
figure
plot(x,y);
%First Scale
scale1=[.1:.1:1];
%New scale is being started from 3. If we start from 1, 1 will be repeated
scale2=[3:2:9];
%Merging two variables scale1 and scale2
set(gca,'YTick',[scale1 scale2]);
Please refer http://www.mathworks.in/help/matlab/creating_plots/change-tick-marks-and-tick-labels-of-graph.html
You can also try the idea of scaling one dataset so that it has a similar magnitude as the other data set. Here you can multiply one dataset by 100 (or any suitable scaling parameter), and then it will be similar in size to the other data set. In order to clearly mention which data has been scaled in the graph use the legend.
plot(x,data1,x,100*data2)
legend('data1','100*data2','location','southeast')
Hope this helps.

How to make 1-D plots in MATLAB?

How can I make plots in MATLAB like in below?
I won't need labels, so you can ignore them. I tried using normal 2D plot, by giving 0 to y parameter for each data points. It does help, but most of the plot remains empty/white and I don't want that.
How can I solve this problem?
Edit:
This is how I plot(playing with values of ylim does not help):
hold on
for i=1:120
if genders(v_labels(i)) == CLASS_WOMAN
plot(v_images_lda(i,:) * w_lda,0,'r*');
else
plot(v_images_lda(i,:) * w_lda,0,'b.');
end
end
title('LDA 1D Plot');
ylim([-0.2 0.2]);
hold off
One way to do this would be to adjust the 'XLim', 'YLim', and 'DataAspectRatio' properties of the axes so that it renders as essentially a single line. Here's an example:
data1 = rand(1,20)./2; %# Sample data set 1
data2 = 0.3+rand(1,20)./2; %# Sample data set 2
hAxes = axes('NextPlot','add',... %# Add subsequent plots to the axes,
'DataAspectRatio',[1 1 1],... %# match the scaling of each axis,
'XLim',[0 1],... %# set the x axis limit,
'YLim',[0 eps],... %# set the y axis limit (tiny!),
'Color','none'); %# and don't use a background color
plot(data1,0,'r*','MarkerSize',10); %# Plot data set 1
plot(data2,0,'b.','MarkerSize',10); %# Plot data set 2
And you will get the following plot:
Here's one way to reproduce your figure using dsxy2figxy and annotate. dsxy2figxy can be hard to find the first time, as it is not really in your path. It is part of the MATLAB package and is provided in the example functions. You can reach it by searching for it in the help docs and once you find it, open it and save it to a folder in your path.
h1=figure(1);clf
subplot(4,1,1);
hold on
xlim([0.2,1]);ylim([-1,1])
%arrow
[arrowX,arrowY]=dsxy2figxy([0.2,1],[0,0]);
annotation('arrow',arrowX,arrowY)
%crosses
x=[0.3,0.4,0.6,0.7,0.75];
plot(x,0,'kx','markersize',10)
%pipes
p=[0.5,0.65];
text(p,[0,0],'$$\vert$$','interpreter','latex')
%text
text([0.25,0.5,0.65],[1,-1,-1]/2,{'$$d_i$$','E[d]','$$\theta$$'},'interpreter','latex')
axis off
print('-depsc','arrowFigure')
This will produce the following figure:
This is sort of a hackish way to do it, as I've tricked MATLAB into printing just one subplot. All rasterized formats (jpeg, png, etc) will not give you the same result, as they'll all print the entire figure including where the non-declared subplots should've been. So to get this effect, it has to be an eps, and it works with it because eps uses much tighter bounding boxes... so all the meaningless whitespace is trimmed. You can then convert this to any other format you want.
Ok so the closest I have come to solving this is the following
hax = gca();
hold on
for i=1:120
if genders(v_labels(i)) == CLASS_WOMAN
plot(v_images_lda(i,:) * w_lda,0,'r*');
else
plot(v_images_lda(i,:) * w_lda,0,'b.');
end
end
set(hax, 'visible', 'off');
hax2 = axes();
set(hax2, 'color', 'none', 'ytick', [], 'ycolor', get(gcf, 'color');
pos = get(hax, 'position');
set(hax2, 'position', [pos(1), pos(2)+0.5*pos(4), pos(3), 0.5*pos(4)]);
title('LDA 1D Plot');
hold off
So in short, I hid the original axis and created a new one located at 0 of the original axis, and as I couldn't remove the y axis completely I set it's color to the background color of the figure.
You can then decide if you also want to play with the tick marks of the x-axis.
Hope this helps!
Very naive trick but a useful one.
Plot in 2d using matlab plot function. Then using edit figure properties compress it to whichever axis you need a 1D plot on !! Hope that helps :)

How to show x and y axes in a MATLAB graph?

I am drawing a graph using the plot() function, but by default it doesn't show the axes.
How do we enable showing the axes at x=0 and y=0 on the graph?
Actually my graph is something like:
And I want a horizontal line corresponding to y=0. How do I get that?
This should work in Matlab:
set(gca, 'XAxisLocation', 'origin')
Options are: bottom, top, origin.
For Y.axis:
YAxisLocation; left, right, origin
By default, plot does show axes, unless you've modified some settings. Try the following
hold on; % make sure no new plot window is created on every plot command
axes(); % produce plot window with axes
plot(% whatever your plot command is);
plot([0 10], [0 0], 'k-'); % plot the horizontal line
The poor man's solution is to simply graph the lines x=0 and y=0. You can adjust the thickness and color of the lines to differentiate them from the graph.
If you want the axes to appear more like a crosshair, instead of along the edges, try axescenter from the Matlab FEX.
EDIT: just noticed this is already pointed out in the link above by Jitse Nielsen.
Maybe grid on will suffice.
I know this is coming a bit late, but a colleague of mine figured something out:
figure, plot ((1:10),cos(rand(1,10))-0.75,'*-')
hold on
plot ((1:10),zeros(1,10),'k+-')
text([1:10]-0.09,ones(1,10).*-0.015,[{'0' '1' '2' '3' '4' '5' '6' '7' '8' '9'}])
set(gca,'XTick',[], 'XColor',[1 1 1])
box off
#Martijn your order of function calls is slightly off. Try this instead:
x=-3:0.1:3;
y = x.^3;
plot(x,y), hold on
plot([-3 3], [0 0], 'k:')
hold off
Inspired by #Luisa's answer, I made a function, axes0
x = linspace(-2,2,101);
plot(x,2*x.^3-3*x+1);
axes0
You can follow the link above to download the function and get more details on usage
Easiest solution:
plot([0,0],[0.0], xData, yData);
This creates an invisible line between the points [0,0] to [0,0] and since Matlab wants to include these points it will shows the axis.