Undefined unary operator '-' for input arguments of type 'string error
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I am going to show x axis in scatter plot by text label like below with positive and negative signs however I get this error
"Undefined unary operator '-' for input arguments of type 'string' "
Can someone please assist in rectifying?
n= ["-240-260";"-220-240";"-200-220";"-180-200";"-160-180";"-140-160";"-120-140";"-100-120";"-80-100";"-60-80";"-40-60";"-20- 40";"0-20";"0+20";"+20+40";"+40+60";"+60+80";"+80+100";"+100+120";"+120+140";"+140+160";"+160+180";"+180+200";"+200+220";"+220+240"];
y1 = [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.04,0.32,0.56,0.08,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0];
y2 = [0,0.05,0.05,0.05,0,0.1,0,0,0.2,0.3,0.1,0.1,0.05,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0];
x=categorical(n);
plot(x,y1,'r--o', x,y2,'k--o');
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Steven Lord
on 7 Jul 2020
When you call categorical with one input, the list of categories in that categorical is the sorted unique values in the input. From the documentation page:
"B = categorical(A) creates a categorical array from the array A. The categories of B are the sorted unique values from A."
Call categorical with two inputs to keep the categories in your desired order.
"B = categorical(A,valueset) creates one category for each value in valueset. The categories of B are in the same order as the values of valueset"
x = categorical(n, n);
plot(x,y1,'r--o', x,y2,'k--o');
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Alan Stevens
on 7 Jul 2020
Why not just:
y1 = [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.04,0.32,0.56,0.08,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0];
y2 = [0,0.05,0.05,0.05,0,0.1,0,0,0.2,0.3,0.1,0.1,0.05,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0];
x=-250:20:230;
plot(x,y1,'r--o', x,y2,'k--o');
This plots the "y" points in the middle of your "x" bands.
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