How can I name the x-axis elements on a plot?

14 views (last 30 days)
I would like to obtain a vector that summarize a certain quantity over all the months.
I want to obtain the name of each month on te x-axis elements but it's not possible whit my script.
I can obtain the graph but then i'm not able to edit the x-element's name.
M=[1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12];
Q=[4 8 6 5 3 15 26 17 40 21 19 10];
plot(M,Q)
I try this but it dosent work.
Months={"Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"};
Q=[4 8 6 5 3 15 26 17 40 21 19 10 30];
plot(Months,Q)
Error using plot
Invalid data argument.
  2 Comments
KSSV
KSSV on 23 Jun 2022
Edited: KSSV on 23 Jun 2022
Your M and Q should be of same size. In your case M is 1X12 and Q is 1X13, thats is why you are getting error.
Pietro Fiondella
Pietro Fiondella on 23 Jun 2022
Thaks but that was just my error, now i 've edit the questione and you see the problem with the script.

Sign in to comment.

Accepted Answer

Karim
Karim on 23 Jun 2022
Here you go, you can overwrite the ticks with a string:
% data
M = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12];
Months = ["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"];
Q = [4 8 6 5 3 15 26 17 40 21 19 10];
% Plot the figure
figure
plot(M,Q)
% Define the tick locations, and label them
set(gca,'XTick',M)
set(gca,'XTickLabel',Months)
ylabel('Y data')
xlabel('Month of the year')

More Answers (0)

Categories

Find more on 2-D and 3-D Plots in Help Center and File Exchange

Products


Release

R2021b

Community Treasure Hunt

Find the treasures in MATLAB Central and discover how the community can help you!

Start Hunting!