Modify the labels an axis in plot

I have a 8760x1 double (TIMVARDEN). One value for each hour of the year.

I typed

plot([1:744],TIMVARDEN(1:744,1))

ylabel('kW')

This is the month of January expressed in hours.

However, I want the x-axis to be expressed in days. I also want the label to show the date and time as the X value.

So instead of

X 348

Y171,24

I want

X '15-Jan-2021 11:00'

Y 171.24

Answer 1

[Ganesh Gudipati]

Hi Joel,

You can use the function 'datetime' and generate sequence of Dates and time. Save that generated value to 'x' and plot the graph now. You should be able to see your expected output.

You can refer the below code

t1 = datetime(2015,1,1,0,0,0); %start point (year, month, date, hours, mins, seconds)
t2 = datetime(2015,1,31,23,0,0);%end point

x = t1:hours(1):t2; %generate date and time between t1 and t2 (Jan 1 to Jan 31 - 744 hours)
y = [1:744]; %replcae the value of 'y' with TIMVARDEN(1:744,1)

plot(x,y);

The result will look like this

I hope this resolves your query.

[Joel]

This solved it! Thank you so so much! :D

Answer 2

[Neha]

It is my understanding that you need to perform the following tasks:

• The X-axis should be expressed in days.
• The format of the datatip output should be changed.

To express the X-axis in days:

for i=1:32
    xt(i)=(i-1)*24;
    xtl(i)=i-1;
end
plot([1:744],TIMVARDEN(1:744,1));
xticklabels(xtl);
xticks(xt);

For the second part of the question:

• Right click on the data-tip
• Select "Update Function"
• Then, select "Edit"

You can replace the existing code with the code below:

function output_txt = myfunction(obj,event_obj)
% Display data cursor position in a data tip
% obj          Currently not used
% event_obj    Handle to event object
% output_txt   Data tip text, returned as a character vector or a cell array of character vectors

pos = event_obj.Position;


%********* Define the content of the data tip here *********%

% Display the x and y values:
output_txt = {['X',formatValue(string(datetime(2021,1,1)+hours(pos(1))),event_obj)],...
    ['Y',formatValue(pos(2),event_obj)]};

%***********************************************************%


% If there is a z value, display it:
if length(pos) > 2
    output_txt{end+1} = ['Z',formatValue(pos(3),event_obj)];
end

%***********************************************************%

function formattedValue = formatValue(value,event_obj)
% If you do not want TeX formatting in the data tip, uncomment the line below.
% event_obj.Interpreter = 'none';
if strcmpi(event_obj.Interpreter,'tex')
    valueFormat = ' \color[rgb]{0 0.6 1}\bf';
    removeValueFormat = '\color[rgb]{.25 .25 .25}\rm';
else
    valueFormat = ': ';
    removeValueFormat = '';
end
formattedValue = [valueFormat num2str(value,4) removeValueFormat];

After pasting the above code, you can save the file as myfunction.m.

The plot will look like the below image: