How to plot values in lower and higher x-values with putting a break in the plot for middle x-values?

Hi there,

Say I want to plot for x values = [1 2 3 4 5 1001 1002 1003 1004 1005] with corresponding y - values = [ 100 200 150 250 50 150 100 500 300 400] with spline type plot. There will be a huge gap in the x-axis here. In many situation, it is someting like we want to zap middle data range by putting a 'break' sign along the x-axis value. So, how can I zap or omit all middle x- and hence y- values as well and put a 'break' symbol in the plot? The plot must be a single plot.

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

[dpb]

MATLAB doesn't know about broken axes, unfortunately. You might explore the FEX and see if there are any user submissions there to simulate the feature.

Otherwise, plot y against the ordinal position vector and then use the XTickLabel property to label the x axis ticks with actual values.

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

There are several submission in the File Exchange that do this:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/?category[]=813&s_tid=FX_AO_detail_cat