how to put variable xtick label in MATLAB plot?
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Poulomi Ganguli
on 19 Oct 2017
Edited: Cam Salzberger
on 19 Oct 2017
Hello,
I have multiple files starting from different start and end year and I would like to show it in the figure output from a loop. How to show the start and end year in custom wise.
for example, Startyear = 1918 & endyear = 1982 at a time step of 5
set(gca,'Xtick',sprintf('%s%s', num2str(Startyear): 5: num2str(Endyear - windowlength)))
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Cam Salzberger
on 19 Oct 2017
Edited: Cam Salzberger
on 19 Oct 2017
Hello Poulomi,
The 'XTickLabel' property indicates what to display for labels. I believe this is the property you wish to modify. If there are tick marks for which you do not wish to display labels, you'll want to give them an empty character array or empty string to display. XTickLabel must have the same length as XTick.
-Cam
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Cam Salzberger
on 19 Oct 2017
Edited: Cam Salzberger
on 19 Oct 2017
If you don't have month/day data, you can just say January 1 as a default. It might be misleading, but no more so than when you create a datetime with no hour/minute/second data.
y = 1960:2012;
d = datetime(y, ones(size(y)), ones(size(y)), ...
'Format', 'yyyy');
vals = rand(size(d));
plot(d, vals)
set(gca,'XTick',d(1:5:end))
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