barwitherr(errors,varargin)
Released Code; update to draw graphics immediately.
Comments and Ratings (106)
Updates
| 1.12.0.0 | Bug fix to update graphics for multiple plots on same figure. Otherwise the error bars overlay on each other instead of being bar-specific for the second group. |
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| 1.12.0.0 | Added compatibility with 2014b graphics |
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| 1.11.0.0 | Errors always defined in terms of upper and lower, even if symmetric. |
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| 1.10.0.0 | Recent comments addressed via bug fix, appearance update and extra optional output parameter. |
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| 1.9.0.0 | Only return handle if requested. |
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| 1.8.0.0 | Returns handle as recommended by Eric in submission comments |
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| 1.7.0.0 | Bug fix: xOrder should be specified when second argument for standard bar function is a width/property. |
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| 1.6.0.0 | Now allows asymmetric errors on 1D data. |
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| 1.3.0.0 | This version allows for asymmetric errors as requested. |
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| 1.2.0.0 | Now accounts for the fact that if x-values are also supplied, they may not be in ascending order. |
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Lionel Arteaga (view profile)
omid (view profile)
Jonas Wielinski (view profile)
James Adinata (view profile)
Brandon Cummings (view profile)
Worked exactly as advertised, out of the box. Thank you!
Jayasuriya Senthilvelan (view profile)
Jayasuriya Senthilvelan (view profile)
Hi, is there anyway to change the thickness of the error bars or customize it?
Martina Callaghan (view profile)
Hi Oscar, this would only be the case if y is a vector not a matrix. In this case the bars are separated by group (x-axis) rather than colour. If y is a matrix then hBar will have an entry for each column of y and the face colour for these can be individually set.
Oscar Knights (view profile)
I can't seem to change the 'facecolor' of each bar separately - they all change to the same colour.
set(hBar(1),'facecolor','b') - changes all bars to blue
set(hBar(2),'facecolor','r') - gives error "index exceeds matrix dimensions"
There only appears to be 1 bar in the handle, but 4 bars are plotted. Any ideas?
Paloma Garrido Amador (view profile)
Thank you very much, it works perfectly!
Martina Callaghan (view profile)
Hi Harsh, yes you can have variable errors - these are passed as a matrix.
Martina Callaghan (view profile)
Mahlet, yes, you can plot values, e.g.:
set(gca,'XTick',[1:6],'XTickLabel',{'A','B','C','D','E','F'});
or
set(gca,'XTick',[1:6],'XTickLabel',1:6);
Matt Learner (view profile)
Tim Blackmore (view profile)
Worked perfectly. Thank you.
Mahlet Zewde (view profile)
Hei, Is it possible to plot values on the x axis?
Miro Grundei (view profile)
Christopher Huenermund (view profile)
Very nice solution !!!
Balasundaram Kadirvelu (view profile)
Almut Heinken (view profile)
Great, exactly what I needed.
Adrian Juncos (view profile)
Can somebody tell me how to use this extension? I can't really make heads or tails of it.
James Moreland (view profile)
Fantastic. Immediately did what I wanted.
Francisco Garcia Rosales (view profile)
Great job, thank you
Janja Dermol (view profile)
Really helpful, thank you.
nuvolet (view profile)
Changoleon (view profile)
Fidan Sümbül (view profile)
Liguo Yang (view profile)
that is really helpful, thank you very much
KevinWang15 (view profile)
very easy to use!
Antonio Verdone (view profile)
Sahar Mahmoudi (view profile)
Mark Does (view profile)
Mohamed Abdelkareem (view profile)
Luca Lo Verde (view profile)
Daniel Charlebois (view profile)
Exactly what I needed. Thanks!
Amir Mohammad Alizadeh (view profile)
Is there a way to change the color of error bars?
Brendan (view profile)
Harsh (view profile)
Is there any way I can provide different error for different group and parameters?
I have a single parameter and multiple groups with symmetric error but different for each group(e.g. Group 1:10%, Group 2:30%, Group 3:20%).
Any help?
Nivedita Rangarajan (view profile)
dkv (view profile)
Dave (view profile)
Great! Note that hold must be off before calling this function.
Anta HUANG (view profile)
Pedram Ramin (view profile)
Pedram Ramin (view profile)
nice job
Nico Zuo (view profile)
@Parto Parto's question indeed exists, since the get(h0, 'children') function can not get the individual bar which is the way in original bar function in Matlab. For example, Y=rand(1,3); eY=rand(1,3);
h0=barwitherr(eY,Y);
h1=get(h0, 'children');
Here, the h1 is not a cell which contains individual bar.
Martin Schrimpf (view profile)
Julian Kuhm (view profile)
Very simple & works fine for me! Good job!
Paolo Inglese (view profile)
Jhonatan Soto (view profile)
Thanks, I was suffering with this, clever solution :)
diegodlh (view profile)
I'm not sure if this has been commented already or not. I'm using MATLAB 2015a and the hErrorbar object array output wasn't working correctly. I found the hErrorbar array preallocation (line 120) to be the problem. Commenting it out solved it. The appropriate fix would be to preallocate the object array somehow else, but I'm quite a beginner and I'm not sure how to do it.
zong zhang (view profile)
very clear and useful
Paolo Inglese (view profile)
Philippe (view profile)
very effective function. Thank
Ben de Monsabert (view profile)
Hi everyone,
The function is no longer working with Matlab R2015a and R2015b.
Because the graphics are now handled differently, the position of the middle of each bar in a grouped bar series can no longer be obtained using :
x = handles.bar(col).XData + [handles.bar(col).XOffset];
After searching on the forum and on the web, I found a solution that worked for me
For Matlab version R2015a and R2015b, the line above should be replaced (see Link 1 below) by :
x = bsxfun(@plus, hBar(col).XData, [hBar(col).XOffset]');
If this does not work (see Link 2 below), another line must be added before:
drawnow
x = bsxfun(@plus, hBar(col).XData, [hBar(col).XOffset]');
Hope it will help other R2015 users continue using this great function.
Ben
Link 1:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/170095-grouped-bar-series-xdata-in-2014b
Link2:
http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/hidden-hg2-plot-functionality
Guillermo David (view profile)
Hi everyone!
I would like exactly this .m but with the posibility to plot in horizontal. Any ideas?
Have a nice week!
James Rankin (view profile)
>> Now updated for 2014b - thanks Jiri for the linke.
I had to also add a drawnow after line 115:
handles.bar = bar(varargin{:});
This is a bit weird, but the handles.bar wasn't properly initialised (XOffset used later would be 0) until the plot command had been allowed to execute...
Incidentally this was on Ubuntu 14.04.
Thanks for a useful function Martina!
Jatin Gera (view profile)
Martina Callaghan (view profile)
Hi Eric,
I would suggest simply generating the plot and then applying a grayscale colour map. That's how I convert my figures for papers.
(>> colormap gray)
Martina
Eric (view profile)
Hi Martina - still an excellent function (I'm using R2013b) and thank you for updating it with my earlier suggested edit.
I'm trying to prepare a bar chart in black & white as required by a journal, and the solution here
http://blogs.mathworks.com/pick/2011/07/15/creating-hatched-patches/
reports an error:
Error using specgraph.barseries/get
The name 'paperpositionmode' is not an accessible property for an
instance of class 'barseries'.
Error in applyhatch_plusC (line 82)
oldppmode = get(h,'paperpositionmode');
...which I presume arises because of the way barwitherr generates the plot associated with the handle h.
I know it's not a fault in your code, but do you have any ideas how we could replace a colour with a hatching or shading pattern?
Thanks
Wasim (view profile)
Any chance you could add an option to control the errorbar tick width, as this code used to do before Matlab 2014b kicked in:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/22826-adjust-error-bar-width/content/errorbar_tick.m
Thanks!
Barbara (view profile)
Martina Callaghan (view profile)
Now updated for 2014b - thanks Jiri for the linke.
Jiri (view profile)
The fix for 2014b is here:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/158899-barweb-in-2014b-doesn-t-work-any-more
Love it!
Francesco (view profile)
As mentioned by others, error bars don't show properly on the new 2014b...
Carl (view profile)
Great submission - very useful! The instructions are pretty clear as well.
Martina Callaghan (view profile)
Hi WH,
I do not know why it wouldn't work in 2014b. Something similar was reported for 2013b though it worked in previous versions and in 2014a. I do not use 2014b so haven't tested. Perhaps a Matlab issue that will be ironed out.
WH (view profile)
This is a very useful script. Thank you!
However, I can get it to work in Matlab 2014a, but it doesn't work in Matlab 2014b trial version. The bars display properly but the error bars didn't. Do you know what the problem is? Thank you!
Parto (view profile)
Thanks for your quick response. The color of both bars change together to red or green.
for example:
y=[0.33,0.362];
errY=[0.017,0.054];
h=barwitherr(errY,y);
set(h(1),'FaceColor','g')
Martina Callaghan (view profile)
Hi Parto,
For example:
h = barwitherr(randn(3,4), randn(3,4));
set(h(1), 'FaceColor','r')
set(h(2), 'FaceColor','g')
The first parameter will be red and the second parameter will be green.
Parto (view profile)
Thank you very much for this useful matlab file. I just wanted to know how I can modify each bar separately, for example color?
Elizabeth (view profile)
Thank you! Works a charm!
Feifei Zhou (view profile)
Jaakko (view profile)
Nice and clean output. But, something fishy going on with Matlab R2013b. Even the example
y = randn(3,4);
errY = 0.1.*y;
h = barwitherr(errY, y);
spits out error
Error using errorbar (line 74)
X, Y and error bars must all be the same length
Error in barwitherr (line 126)
hErrorbar(col) = errorbar(mean(x,1), values(xOrder,col), lowerErrors(xOrder,col),
upperErrors(xOrder, col), '.k');
With earlier releases barwitherr.m seemed to work fine, and the very latest R2014a works as well, so probably some minor changes/bugs in Matlab internal functions..
Efren (view profile)
Thank you very much! This is a very good extra. It is nice from you :)
Martina Callaghan (view profile)
Hi Clare, yes, you can change the line width via:
[hBox hErr] = barwitherr(errY, y);
set(hErr(:), 'LineWidth', 2)
Clare (view profile)
Very useful submission.
Is it possible to change the line width of the error bars?
Annick (view profile)
Just got it to do it with the plot editor. all good.
Annick (view profile)
Really helpful function, thanks! Is there any way to get it to plot a horizontal bar graph? I tried using the "rotate" function but it comes up the error "H must contain axes children only".
Thanks!
Martina Callaghan (view profile)
Hi Cui, use asymmetric error bars (example in header) and set one error to 0.
Cui (view profile)
I only want to plot the above half errorbar, how can I do with this function? Thanks very much.
Beate (view profile)
Matt (view profile)
Fantastic.
Charles Collin (view profile)
Very nice function. I changed the last bit (starting at line 107) like so to get rid of the dot in the middle of the error bar.
if nRows > 1
for col = 1:nCols
% Extract the x location data needed for the errorbar plots:
x = get(get(handles.bar(col),'children'),'xdata');
% Use the mean x values to call the standard errorbar fn; the
% errorbars will now be centred on each bar; these are in ascending
% order so use xOrder to ensure y values and errors are too:
ebhandle = errorbar(mean(x,1),values(xOrder,col),lowerErrors(xOrder,col), upperErrors(xOrder, col), '.k');
set(ebhandle, 'Marker', 'none');
end
else
x = get(get(handles.bar,'children'),'xdata');
ebhandle = errorbar(mean(x,1),values,errors,'.k');
set(ebhandle, 'Marker', 'none');
end
Cherkasov Nikolay (view profile)
Unfortunately it does not work when one deals with the only group. Even the modified built-in example does not work ( y = randn(1,4); errY = zeros(1,4,2); errY(:,:,1) = 0.1.*y; errY(:,:,2) = 0.2.*y; barwitherr(errY, y); )
In order to solve this problem, line 118 should be modified to provide errors more explicitly - like this
errorbar(mean(x,1),values,values-errors(:,:,1),errors(:,:,2)-values,'.k')
Cherkasov Nikolay (view profile)
Unfortunately it does not work when one deals with the only group. Even the modified built-in example does not work ( y = randn(1,4); errY = zeros(1,4,2); errY(:,:,1) = 0.1.*y; errY(:,:,2) = 0.2.*y; barwitherr(errY, y); )
In order to solve this problem, line 118 should be modified to provide errors more explicitly - like this
errorbar(mean(x,1),values,errors(:,:,1),errors(:,:,2),'.k')
Martina Callaghan (view profile)
Mossi, see the help entry for the file and the help entry for bar (dictates what kind of plots can be created).
You appear to have four parameters in three conditions. So, your data (y) and errors (errY) should each be held in a 3x4 matrix.
h = barwitherr(errY, y);
Use the handles "h" to tailor figure properties/appearance.
Mossi (view profile)
Thank you so much for the useful function. I could not create a special plot though. Here is the link to the plot picture:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jn45qasmr8zec8a/Photo%202013-06-24%201%2024%2005%20AM.png
I have created this plot in Excel but could not use Matlab to do it. Could you please guide me on how to use your function for plotting this?
Eric (view profile)
Very useful function - I added a line to return the handle to the plot, so that existing commands from Matlab's "bar" can still be used with barwitherr:
After
>handles.bar = bar(varargin{:}); % standard implementation of bar fn
>hold on
Add:
h = handles.bar
and then change the function line at the top of the program to:
function h = barwitherr(errors,varargin)
You can then use things like
set(h(1),'FaceColor','g');
in your code that calls barwitherr, exactly as you would with calls to 'bar'.
Stratos (view profile)
Brett (view profile)
Thanks for the program. Aurélien, nice addition, I modified your code a little to allow for different colors for multiple parameters in each group:
edge = [.4 .4 .4;.4 .4 .4;.4 .4 .4];
face = [0 1 0;0 0 1;1 0 0];
for n=1:length(handles.bar) %set colors
set(handles.bar(n),'edgecolor',edge(n,:),'facecolor',face(n,:));
end
Aurélien BERTIN (view profile)
I've added the following nice things to change color and bar size :
After line "handles.bar = bar(varargin{:}); % standard implementation of bar fn":
for n=1:length(handles.bar)
set(handles.bar(n),'edgecolor',[.4 .4 .4],'facecolor',[1 0.6 0.2]);
end
Colors can be even changed for a specified n.
After "hold off":
for n=1:length(h)
clear hh
hh=get(h(n),'children');
set(hh(2),'linewidth',1.5)
x = get(hh(2),'xdata');
w = .1; % Horizontal lines width
x(4:9:end) = x(1:9:end)-w/2;
x(7:9:end) = x(1:9:end)-w/2;
x(5:9:end) = x(1:9:end)+w/2;
x(8:9:end) = x(1:9:end)+w/2;
set(hh(2),'xdata',x(:))
end
It changes the width, and the aspect of the error bar line. With tha, you should also add an "end" after, the hold off being non longer the termination.
Anyway, very nice program!
Laura (view profile)
Armita (view profile)
Alexandre (view profile)
Brendan Floyd (view profile)
Simple and works well. Nice job.
Don Vaughn (view profile)
Simple. Quick. Easy. Exactly what I was looking for
Alex (view profile)
Works great for me, thanks!
Martina Callaghan (view profile)
Asymmetric errors on 1D/2D data now working.
Jens (view profile)
The asymmetric errors seem to work only with grouped/2D data
Martina Callaghan (view profile)
The other options I came across were barerror #9377 & barweb #10803 as noted earlier. They were too complex for what I wanted. This submission is not an extension of any other hence no reference. It is something I find useful and have submitted in case others would too. If not of use, no problem.
Bolu Ajiboye (view profile)
You stated that you came across other error bar scripts (like barweb, which has been around at least 6 years) but completely failed to acknowledge them.
Martina Callaghan (view profile)
I have just gotten around to updating this so that it can be called with asymmetric error bars. Add an extra dimension to the erros so as to specify the upper and lower in each. Hope this helps.
sinoTrinity Liu (view profile)
The errors are symmetric. How can I add asymmetric errors?
Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen (view profile)
Martina Callaghan (view profile)
The ones I came across (barerror #9377 & barweb #10803) are much more complex. With complexity came the need for extra parameters and less user control.
This submission is just a basic extension of MatLab's bar and errorbar functions, which are cited!
I don't have the time to go through all of the other versions to compare. If you do, feel free to post how you get on.
Zachary Danziger (view profile)
Sorry, maybe its easier to search for files with file names instead of file IDs:
24718-bar-with-errorbars
27387-create-healthy-looking-error-bars
25613-barrerror-utility-for-bar-plots-with-automatic-error-bars
9377-barerror
9541-barerrorbar
Zachary Danziger (view profile)
What is the relevant difference between this code and submission #24718 specifically (or generally submissions #27387, #25613, #9377, or #9541)?
This is not a critique specific to this code, which is probably fine, but is there some way to reach a consensus on which of these functions is best? Or perhaps merge these submissions, or create a new umbrella submission for all of these? At any rate, the author should cite some of these predecessors.