xticklabels function for more than 11 labels ?

Hello everyone ,

I need to use the function "xticklabels" for labeling the x-axis this is my code:

    figure (1)
   xticklabels({'jan','feb','mar','apr','may','jun','jul','aug','sep','oct','nov','dec'})

but the figure display only till 'nov' how can I include the last one ?

Thank you.

Answer 1

[Jan]

It is smarter to avoid the hard coding to set the names of the months, but to use datetick to display the names dynamically and automatically adjusted to the data.

[Reema Alhassan]

could you show me please how to do this ?

[Jan]

I'd start with doc datetick (link) .

Please read this at first. If a detail is not clear, ask specifically.

This example might be useful:

startDate = datenum('01-01-2009');
endDate   = datenum('12-31-2009');
xData = linspace(startDate,endDate,12);
ax    = axes;
bar(xData,rand(1,12))
ax.XTick = xData; 
datetick(ax1,'x','mm','keepticks')
pause(1)
datetick(ax1,'x','mmm','keepticks')

[Reema Alhassan]

Thank you so much !

[Steven Lord]

Instead of using datetick, consider plotting a datetime array.

startOfYear = dateshift(datetime('today'), 'start', 'year');
randomDays = randi([0 364], 1, 20);
D = startOfYear + days(sort(randomDays));
D.Format = 'MMM dd';
plot(D, 1:20, '-o')

Answer 2

[Mandeep Singh]

From my understanding of the problem, you could specify the xticks before xticklabel to get the desired output . Try the following example snippet:

xticks(1:12)
xticklabels({'jan','feb','mar','apr','may','jun','jul','aug','sep','oct','nov','dec'})

The value of the xticks can be varied according to the data you are plotting.

[Reema Alhassan]

this is what I'm getting ..

[jonas]

The problem is that when you create a default figure, then matlab makes an axis with xlim=[0 1] with 11 equally spaced xtick. You can just change the xlim to get your desired results, but for almost any application I would suggest using Jan's method instead.

[Reema Alhassan]

Thank you so much