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Reputation: 6668

plotting a chart with dates on the x-axis in mmm-yy format

I am trying to plot a chart in MATLAB. I have read that datetick is the way to go however I cannot get it to work. The error message is below the example of my code. te_result_struct.comp_dates is a vector containing the dates in a number format. If I plot the chat without trying to format the dates everything works.

figure(1)
plot(te_result_struct.comp_dates, te_result_struct.te_diff)
datetick(te_result_struct.comp_dates, 12)

SWITCH expression must be a scalar or string constant.

Error in datetick>parseinputs (line 352) switch v{1}

Error in datetick (line 109) [axh,nin,ax,dateform,keep_ticks,keep_limits] = parseinputs(varargin);

Error in tracking_error_comp_ret (line 74) datetick(te_result_struct.comp_dates, 12)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 263

Answers (1)

Floris
Floris

Reputation: 46365

The first argument of datetick is the axis to which you are applying, not the values of the labels. Try

datetick(gca,12);

This uses the built-in pre-defined "format 12" which is 'mmmyy' - see http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/datetick.html

Upvotes: 2

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