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Re: Change the x-axis scale on a graph
Posted:
Feb 5, 2013 5:34 AM
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Dear dpb,
sorry for being late and thanks!!!!
Best,
M
dpb <none@non.net> wrote in message <kem0ib$g2m$1@speranza.aioe.org>...
> On 2/3/2013 5:40 AM, Milos Milenkovic wrote:
> > Dear, I have a special time series graph. It's looks as follows:
> > a = [1 431.3 0.5 454 1 476.7;
> > 2 412.3 1.5 434 2 455.7];
> > x = a(:,[1 3 5])';
> > y = a(:,[2 4 6])';
> ...
>
> >
> > How to transform the scale of x axis? In particular case I want to
> > change the values 0,1,2,3,4 with Dec 2005, Jan 2006, Feb 2006, .....
>
> yr=2005; % beginning year
> mo=[12:28]; % a vector of months
> da=1; % day
> x_dat=datenum(y,mo',d); % convert to datenums
> plot(x_dat,rand(size(x_dat))) % sample data plot
> datetick('x','mmmyy','keeplimits','keepticks') % display as dates
>
> NB: datenum() and friends will roll months,days over to next using
> calendar arithmetic so that 2005-13-01 becomes 2006-01-01. Thus you can
> simply create the date range by passing the start year and a vector of
> months from first incrementing by 1 to whatever final length you wish.
> I just used a number here great enough to show a couple of years for
> demo purposes...
>
> Adjust final limits as per your desires for presentation--you can set
> fixed tick values, etc., either by axes([]) or directly w/ set()...
>
> doc datenum % and friends
> doc datetick
>
> --
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