Unequal tick distribution on axis
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Is there a way i can manually set the tick marks of the x axis in a way that they aren't equally distributed?
For the x axis, I need to plot at 101217, 101223, 101229, 110107, 110112, 110121, and 110130. The numbers correspond to yy-mm-dd. This leads to an unclear graph with a jumble of data points in the 100,000 range and a jumble in the 110,000 range.
So, how do i get tick marks at just the above points?
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Titus Edelhofer
on 14 Nov 2011
Hi Adrian,
just set the ticks:
set(gca, 'Xtick', [101217 101223 101229])
Or did I misunderstand something?
Titus
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Kelly Kearney
on 14 Nov 2011
Do you really want to plot all your data with such an odd x coordinate system? I would recommend translating your x coordinates to datenumbers, then use datetick to label the axis.
t = [101217, 101223, 101229, 110107, 110112, 110121, 110130];
y = rand(7,1); % some fake data
dn = datenum(num2str(t'), 'yymmdd');
plot(dn, y, 'b.');
datetick('x',25);
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