Conversion operators error!

I'm trying to set my xTicklabels:

set(gca, 'xtick',1:8,'XTickLabels',compose('diffNA2l','diffNA2h','diffA2l','diffA2h','allNA2h','allNA2l','allA2l','allA2h'))

it is giving me

Error using compose (line 98)
Format must have enough conversion operators for the data arguments.

Why?

Answer 1

[Scott MacKenzie]

You don't need compose because you aren't formatting numeric values into the labels. Just specifiy your labels in a cell array:

bar(1:8, rand(1,8));
labels = {'diffNA2l','diffNA2h','diffA2l','diffA2h','allNA2h','allNA2l','allA2l','allA2h'};
set(gca, 'xtick', 1:8, 'XTickLabels', labels);

[Lukas Netzer]

thanks a lot - still much to learn!

[Image Analyst]

Or you could use the separate functions made for dealing with tick marks (R2016b and later):

xticks()

xticklabels()