xlim in boxchart not working

How can I change the X-axis limits in a boxchart? I want to cut the extra space on the left of "C>A" and right of "T>G" but I am not sure how to do so.

When I write:

xlim([0.5 3.5])

Matlab says: "Error using xlim

Value must be a 2-element vector of increasing or equal categorical values as ordered by the ruler Categories property."

Please note that I have imitated the "TemperatureData.csv" example in this webpage to plot this figure.

The problem I mentioned above comes somehow from the boxchart command; xlim works on boxplot properly. So, if you have a method to plot two distributions for each category in different colors using boxplot, the problem might be solved.

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

It would help to have the data and code to test, since I cannot find any examples in the boxchart documentation that could provide a similar plot.

That aside, if you are using categorical variables for the x-axis, numeric values for xlim may not work. It may be necessary to use numeric values for the xticks and then use separate xticklabels to label them. (The only relevant experience I have with this is with bar plots, that need to have numeric x-axis coordinates if such as error bars or bar labes are added to them. This does not work with categorical variables, so the usual approach is to use numeric x-variables and then label them using xticklabels.)

[Marwa Tuffaha]

Sorry I couldn't share the data as it is part of a research project and not shareable at this point. However, your hint helped me solve the problem.. Thanks!

[Star Strider]

As always, my pleasure!