Remove dates from plot

I have to plot this time series

As you may notice there is a missing period immediately after 2012. I would like to remove this period. So I have done is this:

I have identified the ordinal number of the dates and I have removed both from x and y:

X(1553:1574) = [];

Y(1553:1574) = [];

But the result is the following

The time-series now looks as it is contant in the removed dates. Any suggestion on how to remove the period?

Answer 1

[Kevin Holly]

An easy way to resolve this could be this:

plot(X(1:1552),Y(1:1552),'k')
hold on
plot(X(1575:end),Y(1575:end),'k')

Edit: I just realized I misunderstood what you wanted. You want to edit the x-axis scale? You can't just close the gap as your scale would be off. Did you want a break in scale?

If so, see:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/42537-break-in-the-axis

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/42905-break-x-axis

[davide pirino]

I think you got what I want, because I do not want to break the x-axis, just remove from the graph the missing part. Unfortunately if I use your code nothing changes, still I have the missing part displayed in the graph.

[Kevin Holly]

Just came across this and thought about this question:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/1462814-how-to-add-different-range-in-x-axis-plot/?s_tid=ans_lp_feed_leaf

Does this answer help?