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function H=labelEdgeSubPlots(xl,yl,onlyBottom)
Purpose
If all subplots have the same quantities on the x and y axes then
there's no point labeling all of them. Often it looks neater to
simply have y labels only on the plots along the left hand
edge and x labels only on the plots along the bottom. This
function does this automatically for the current figure.
Inputs
xl - a string specifying what to label the x axes.
yl - a string specifying what to label the y axes.
onlyBottom - by default this is zero and the function adds an
x-axis to appropriate plots from the penultimate row
if the bottom row of plots is incomplete. set
onlyBottom to 1 to suppress this behaviour.
* in addition: onlyBottom can be a vector of axis handles to
be processsed.
Outputs
H - a structure containing handles to the x and y axis labels
Example
clf
for i=1:5
subplot(2,3,i)
x=[0:10]; y=1+0.01*x.^3+randn(size(x))*0.2;
plot(x,y,'ok'), xlabel('will be removed')
end
H=labelEdgeSubPlots('beer [pints]','faux pas');
%or:
H=labelEdgeSubPlots('beer [pints]','faux pas',1);
%One can also do:
set(H.xlabels,'color','red','fontweight','bold')
%proccess only some subplots
ax=[];
for i=1:25
subplot(5,5,i), box on
if mod(i,5)==1, ax=[gca,ax]; end
end
labelEdgeSubPlots('X','Y',ax);
Rob Campbell - January 2009
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Rob: Very nice, thanks. Paul
Ya, the problem is my data is pairwise interaction so need to do xlabel and ylabel with 'A', 'B', 'C' respectively.
pie chart need to turn axis on to show xlabel, but it will also show axis line.
set 'Xtick' to [] removes the tick, but it still preserves the black axis line.
set 'XColor' into 'w' makes line invisible, but will also make the xlabel into white.
just wanna share my current finding.
And very useful code
rate it now :)
I hadn't thought of pie charts since they don't have x and y axes. I think pie charts might require a more customised solution.
Dear Rob,
This is excellent, but how do I make it work on pie chart?
Angus
Great function! thanks
Nice function. Thanks!
thank you very much!!!!
Easy:
H=labelEdgeSubPlots('X','WALL');
set(H.ylabels(1),'String','CENTRE')
yes, I mean different rows should have different y labels. I have two rows and six columns.The top row has the name of "wall", the bottom row has the name of "center."
I like that "wall" and "center" appear only in the first colunma (ylabel).
if i<12 && mod(i,2)==1
subplot(2,6,(i/2+0.5));
loglog(freq([1:longi(i)],i),power([1:longi(i)],i),'b-'...
,freq([1:longi(i)],i),powerfit([1:longi(i)],i),'k-');
L2 = ['h = ' num2str(-B) ' m'];
L3 = ['m = ' num2str(a1,3)];
title({L2;L3},'FontSize',8);
elseif i>=12 && mod(i,2)==0
subplot(2,6,(i/2+1));
loglog(freq([1:longi(i)],i),power([1:longi(i)],i),'b-'...
,freq([1:longi(i)],i),powerfit([1:longi(i)],i),'k-');
L3 = ['m = ' num2str(a1,3)];
title({L3},'FontSize',8);
end
Best regards,
Top and bottom of what? Do you mean different rows should have different y labels? If so, that is beyond the scope of this function because different people will have different requirements. However, I the function returns the handles to the x and y labels. It would be trivial for you to use those handles to further modify your sub-plots as desired. I think this is the "correct" way to do things.
Dear Rob
how would be the case: ylabel different in top and bottom in the subplot??