How do I add gridlines on both vertical and horizontal axis to a boxplot here is a simple example
load carsmall
boxplot(MPG, Origin, 'medianstyle', 'target')
grid on;
This only allows lines to be placed horizontally. I need something to separate out the horizontal axis as well
Thanks!
use the factorseparator handle:
boxplot(MPG, Origin, 'medianstyle', 'target','factorseparator',1)
FYI, you would know that if you searched for the word "grid" in the boxplot documentation page http://www.mathworks.com/help/stats/boxplot.html.
imagine what else you could discover if you start to read the documentation pages!
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I managed to plot a matrix (16X16) but I want to add labels for each single x and y axis's. As shown below, the labels are written vertically on the y and mixed with each other and also written on the x graph itself and also mixed. Is there a way to add the labels beside the axis without being mixed (as show in the second photo)?
Current graph:
What I want to do:
My code (just stopped after plotting three label as it wasn't working):
[~,ax] = plotmatrix(corr);
ylabel(ax(1,1),'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP')
ylabel(ax(2,1),'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP')
ylabel(ax(3,1),'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP')
xlabel(ax(16,1),'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP')
xlabel(ax(16,2),'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP')
xlabel(ax(16,3),'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP')
If I understand your problem you want to be able to give individual y-labels for the rows and x-labels for the columns. Unfortunately when you use xlabel and ylabel the resulting text overlaps. Here are two solutions
Solution 1: Use the big-axes to set the labels
Use single label for the horizontal axis and vertical axis by referencing the big-axes
[~,~,HBigAxe] = plotmatrix(corr);
xlabel(HBigAxe,'Horizontal Label for Columns');
ylabel(HBigAxe,'Vertical Label for Rows');
Solution 2: use rotation and alignment to avoid overlapping labels
If you want each row and column to have there own labels you can rotate and set the horizontal alignment of the label. For example:
[~,ax] = plotmatrix(corr);
ylabel(ax(1,1),'Y Axis Label','Rotation',0,'HorizontalAlignment','right')
xlabel(ax(end,1),'X Axis Label','Rotation',90,'HorizontalAlignment','right')
I am creating a plot in Matlab with a logarithmic x-scale. When I turn the grid lines on, it creates verticle lines with steps of 10^0.1 (figure 1). I only want ticks every 10^1.
I've tried using set(gca,'xtick',10.^[-3:2]), which does not change anything. I can set most of the ticks I want (Figure 2), but as soon as I add a tick at 10^-2, all of the smaller grid lines appear as well.
Is there a way to get the gridlines I want without plotting them manually?
Figure 1
Figure 2
Try:
grid minor;
It should get rid of the minor grid lines that you don't want.
It works with the next commands:
set(gca,'ygrid','on')
set(gca,'xgrid','on')
set(gca,'yminorgrid','off')
set(gca,'xminorgrid','off')
The MATLAB surf plot below is essentially two plots plotted adjacent to each other. For clarity, I have included some code below used to prepare the plot:
band1 = horzcat(band1, eSurface2(:,:,1));
band2 = horzcat(band2, eSurface2(:,:,2));
surf(band2,'DisplayName','band2');
surf(band3,'DisplayName','band2');
I would like for the y axis numbering to restart at the start of the second graph. How do I go about doing that?
You can use the 'YTick' and 'YTickLabel' properties of the axis to control the ticks, this way you can make it start from zero for the second graph. It will require some trail and error to get it right. See the relevant doc here (you'll have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page).
Take advantage of the following feature of 'YTickLabel': "If you do not specify enough text labels for all the tick marks, MATLAB uses all of the labels specified, then reuses the specified labels".
I have the tick label set for the x-axis already and I also have the label set for the x-axis too. I am seeking a way to put an additional x label to the rightmost of the figure next to the x tick labels, is there any way to do so? Thanks
just like the following figure, the x ticks was added automatically and x label was added by the command xlabel. But I want to add one additional label "add'l" (red) in the figure. But I have many plots and/or subplots and the axes might be different, so I need to add that label with problem instead of manually.
I suggest using a uicontrol that will be carefully placed in the relevant area.
uicontrol('style','text',....);
If your UI is resizable, be sure to have the same units, i.e. if the text units are Normalized, then the axes units should be Normalized as well.
Check out this example on the MATPLOTLIB gallery page: http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/alignment_test.html
It shows adding all kinds of different text to the axis.
Consider something like
figure
plot(sin(0:0.01:pi))
axis tight
set(gca,'box','on','ticklength',[0.02 0.05])
then export the graph to PDF or whatever. The lines of the graph are on top of the tick labels and the axes. (Furthermore, the lines of the axes don't meet correctly, but that's another story.)
Is there a way (that can be automated) to have the axes drawn on top?
Try:
set(gca, 'Layer','top')
according to the documentation page:
Layer
{bottom} | top
Draw axis lines below or above graphics objects. Determines whether
to draw axis lines and tick marks on
top or below axes children objects for
any 2-D view (for example, when you
are looking along the x-, y-, or
z-axis). Use this property to place
grid lines and tick marks on top of
images.
and to visually see the effect (zoomed in 1200%), I save the figure as a PDF file:
Default (Layer=bottom):
with Layer=top: