graph from a dataset

Hi ,

I have data as follow for about 58 rows.

Name  Area   lotNum  Type   Month1 Month2 Month3.... MonthN
Rest1 biz     123   south     5    5      7   ....    3
Rest1 nonBiz  123   south     2   11      8   .....   1
Rest1 biz     456   south     11   9      3   .....  24
rest2 biz     123   south     9    3      23  .....  21
rest3 biz     789   south     23   3      4   ......  1

I want to draw graph for each row for months on x-axis and value on y-axis. Also is it possible to have this graph saved in a file. ?

Thanks.

[jgg]

If I understand your question correctly, this should produce either 58 seperate graphs, or a single graph with 58 lines on it. Are you sure this is what you want to do? That's probably going to be unreadable.

[jgg]

If it is, you can just concatenate your N months variables together by columns, into a 58xN matrix (call it M) where the rows correspond to the 58 observations. Then, you can just do plot(M,[1:N]). You can then save the figure or edit it, etc.

[Neesha]

So i agree having 58 lines on one graph will make it unreadable. I am ok to group them by 'Name'.

Now having said that, I do not understand what you are suggesting. I know plot() function, just do not how to get M and N as you are suggesting. My months' data can be easily in matrix/dataset format. I will try what you suggested and see if it works.

How do i save it to file?

[Neesha]

Ok so I was able to group them by 'Name' and get my plot as you suggested. How do i label the line that for what 'lot' it is for. And how do i save the plot figure in a file from code?

[Neesha]

So i figured Xclicks and xTicks. Just cannot get them to align. Since my N is 192, how do i get months only which aligns to Xticks i decide

[Neesha]

After my graph is created i do following

     arrayX = [10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170, 180, 190]; % I have 192 months
     for i = 1:xSize
       if mod(i, 10) == 0
           mLabel(j) = monLabel(i);
           j = j + 1;
       end
     end
     set(gca,'XTick',arrayX]);
    set(gca,'XTickLabel', mLabel)

this gets me label positioned at every 10 months so the labels donot crowd on each other and can read easily. I would love it to be done little less hardcorded then it is right now

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

To save the graph(s), use export_fig(): http://blogs.mathworks.com/pick/2010/05/28/creating-and-exporting-publication-quality-graphics/

[Neesha]

how is it different from saveas()