How to rotate legend in matlab 2019

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Hi, I would like to rotate the legend from horizontal layout to vertical layout, just as shown in the picture below. Could anyone share some experience about this?
Thanks for you coming help!
Alden

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Sai Sri Pathuri
Sai Sri Pathuri on 10 Jul 2020
There is no direct function to rotate legends in graphs using MATLAB.
However, as a workaround we can manually rotate the legends. Please refer to the following example:
% create a sample plot
h1 = plot(1:5);
% add legend to the graph
[legend_handle, icons] = legend('Sample legend');
% disable the box around the legend object
set(legend_handle, 'Box', 'off')
% get the current position of the legend object
leg_pos=get(legend_handle,'position');
% assign the required position of the legend to a new variable
new_leg_pos=[.7 0.6 .2 leg_pos(4)+.2] ;
% Get current line data (horizontal line)
xd = icons(2).XData;
yd = icons(2).YData;
% Swap X and Y data for line (make vertical line)
icons(2).XData = yd;
icons(2).YData = xd;
% Rotate and reposition the text
set(icons(1),'rotation',90)
icons(1).Position = [0.5 0.4 0];
% Adjust legend size to accomodate changes.
set(legend_handle,'position',new_leg_pos);
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Joan Sturm
Joan Sturm on 3 May 2021
I do have the same problem and I'm working with R2020a.
yuxuan
yuxuan on 24 Dec 2023
This only works on the plot figure, when i use the 'errorbar' function same error shows up.

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