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C.Colden
C.Colden

Reputation: 627

X-Axis labeled in a scatter plot in Matlab

I would like to do a scatter plot with two populations A and B. I am currently using zeros and ones to generate the scatter plot. So A is line up at x=0 and B and x=1. Is it possible to delete numbers from the x-axis and just add a string? So that it looks like a histogram?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3929

Answers (2)

Stewie Griffin
Stewie Griffin

Reputation: 14939

Something like this should do the trick:

scatter(x,y);
labels = {'A', 'B'}
set(gca,'XTick',0:1)
set(gca,'XTickLabel',labels)

set(gca,'XTick',0:1) is used to only place ticks on 0 and 1. Similarly, for all integers within range: 0:max(x).

set(gca,'XTickLabel',labels) is used to change the name of the ticks. Note that the length of labels must be equal to the number of ticks.

Upvotes: 2

Notlikethat
Notlikethat

Reputation: 20914

Yes. if you get a handle to the axes you can use the XTick and XTickLabel properties e.g.

set(gca, 'XTick', [], 'XTickLabel', []);

to remove them entirely, or

set(gca, 'XTick', [0 1], 'XTickLabel', {'this one', 'that one'});

Or just play with properties until you find something you like ;)

(you can also fiddle with things via the figure property editor in the GUI if you don't want to do it programmatically)

Upvotes: 3

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