Plot matrix by different colours

I'm new to MATLAB and would like to plot the elements of an array of 16 values onto a graph so that each is plotted in a different colour and markertype and that the colour and markertype is displayed with the name in the legend. The values in the array are stored in a 1 row, 16 column matrix. Each value is associated with a city name. I created a function file that loads the city names from a .csv file. I am using the plot (A) command. It seems to me MATLAB plots all the values at once and does not accept multiple colour and marker type assignment. How do I get around this? Do I use a for-loop to loop through the names and values in the matrix, using the hold all command? I'm not quite sure how to do this.

Answer 1

[Jan]

A FOR loop and "hold all" sounds fine. But you cannot define a MarkerStyleOrder in opposite to LineStyleOrder and ColorOrder. This must be defined manually:

data = rand(1, 16);

figure;
hold('all');
MarkerOrder = '+o*x';
MarkerIndex = 1;
ColorOrder  = lines(6);  % see "doc colormap"
ColorIndex  = 1;

H = zeros(1, 16);  % Store handles
for i = 1:16
  H(i) = plot(i, data(i), ...
              'Marker', MarkerOrder(MarkerIndex), ...
              'Color', ColorOrder(ColorIndex, :));
  ColorIndex = ColorIndex + 1;
  if ColorIndex > size(ColorIndex, 1)
    ColorIndex  = 1;
    MarkerIndex = MarkerIndex + 1;
    if MarkerIndex > size(MarkerIndex, 2)
       MarkerIndex = 1;
    end
  end
end

legend(H, {'Name1', 'Name2', 'Name3', <etc>});