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Rory
Rory

Reputation: 341

How to hide y axis?

I plot a horizontal boxplot in MATLAB -- boxplot(y, group,'orientation','horizontal'), and then hide the y-axis using set(gca,'box','off','ycolor','w').

It looks fine on the screen - only the bottom x-axis is visible. But whenever I save the figure to file, using either the print() function or matlabfrag.m, the left y-axis reappears in the output file (although it doesn't show up in MATLAB's visualization of the figure).

How can I keep this y-axis hidden?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 26069

Answers (6)

Evan
Evan

Reputation: 1

Probably not relevant to the old versions, but here is how I did mine.

plot(X,Y)                    
ylabel('Intensity [a.u.]');      %creates y axis label named 'Intensity [a.u.]'
yticklabels(' ');                %sets tick labels to ' ' (space)

This might be what is shown in other explanations, but those made no sense to me. I am using version 2021a.

Upvotes: 0

user8260285
user8260285

Reputation: 51

Try:

ax1 = gca;                   % gca = get current axis
ax1.YAxis.Visible = 'off';   % remove y-axis
ax1.XAxis.Visible = 'off';   % remove x-axis

Upvotes: 5

CharlieB
CharlieB

Reputation: 744

I know this is an old post, but the following also remove the tick marks which is probably what you want:

set(gca, 'YTick', []);

Upvotes: 6

Amir
Amir

Reputation: 155

To remove labels from a plot, use the following commands for X-axis or Y-axis:

set(gca,'XTickLabel',{' '})
set(gca,'YTickLabel',{' '})

Upvotes: 2

Matt Mizumi
Matt Mizumi

Reputation: 1193

Before exporting the figure, do

set(gcf, 'InvertHardCopy', 'off');

Upvotes: 2

DanielTheRocketMan
DanielTheRocketMan

Reputation: 3249

Something similar happened to me sometime ago with another property. The only way to keep the property was saving directly from the figure menu! I know that it is boring, but helped me!

Upvotes: 0

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