Plot with a lag

Suppose I want to have plot of lagged x and y that belong in table T. For example, I want to have a plot that the first element of T.x is paired with second element of T.y, the second element of T.x is paired with the third element of T.y, etc. Please advise.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

plot(T.x(1:end-1), T.y(2:end))

Answer 2

[Brandon Free]

Because you have to always have the same number of x and y data, you could accomplish this by deleting a few entries. Also note that tables work the same way, meaning you always have to have the same length of x and y, so you first have to transform the tables to regular vectors.

XData = T.x;
YData = T.y;
XData(1) = [];
YData(end) = [];
plot(XData, YData)

[alpedhuez]

Thank you. Easier to understand.