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text labels in bar plots

Mastaneh — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:03:03 -0400

Hi everyone,

I need to apply text (string) labels instead of usual
numbers to the x-axis of my bar plots, but couldn't find
anyway to change them as in h=bar() and set(h,...). Does
anybody know how to do that?
Many thanks in advance :)
Mastaneh

Re: text labels in bar plots

Nick Clark — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:09:01 -0400

Use cell arrays as follows:

bar([3 4 5])
set(gca,'XTickLabel',{'me','myself','&I'})

Re: text labels in bar plots

Mastaneh — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:17:01 -0400

"Nick Clark" <bmoviehorror@hotmail.com> wrote in message
<g7hr2t$cqe$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Use cell arrays as follows:
>
>
> bar([3 4 5])
> set(gca,'XTickLabel',{'me','myself','&I'})
>

Thanks a lot Nick! It worked :)

Re: text labels in bar plots

Nick Clark — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:25:03 -0400

Happy to help :)

Re: text labels in bar plots

Ajit — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:06:33 -0400

On Aug 8, 11:25 am, "Nick Clark" <bmoviehor...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Happy to help :)

What will make the labels appear vertical instead of horizontal?
Thanks,
-Ajit

Re: text labels in bar plots

Walter Roberson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:23:36 -0400

Ajit wrote:

> What will make the labels appear vertical instead of horizontal?

There is a Matlab File Exchange (FEX) contribution to create
rotated tick labels.
--
Q = quotation(rand);
if isempty(Q); error('Quotation server filesystem problems')
else sprintf('%s',Q), end