Add X Labels to Bar Graph

Hi, I need help getting the X Axis labels to be complete.. I'd like to label every bar and have the years at a 45 degree angle. Code below.... thanks!

ax.XTickMode = 'manual';

ax.XTick = 1:24; %24 years of data, so I want 24 labels!

%ax.XTick = [0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4 0.45 0.5 0.55 0.6 0.65 0.7 0.75 0.8 0.85 0.9 0.95 1 1.05 1.1 1.15]; %tried making the bins tiny didn't help

ax.XTickLabels = {'2000','2001','2002','2003','2004','2005','2006','2007','2008','2009','2010','2011','2012','2013','2014','2015','2016','2017','2018','2019','2020','2021','2022','2023'};

ax.XTickLabelRotation = 45;

w1 = 1; %this is how i figured out to get both data sets plotted on the same bar graph

bar(years,more,w1,'FaceColor',[0.4784 0.4627 0.4627])

w2 = 1;

hold on

bar(years,less,w2,'FaceColor',[0.8000 0.8000 0.8000])

hold off

grid on

ylabel('August Precipitation (in)')

legend({'Higher than Average','Lower than Average'},'Location','northeast')

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

You must create the plot before you modify the axes properties. That, or as part of your plotting, specify the axes to add the plot to. Otherwise, the plotting function clears the axes before creating the figure.

years = 2000:2023;
precipitation = 4*rand(1,24)-2;
more = precipitation>=0;
less = precipitation<0;

w = 1;
bar(years(more),precipitation(more),w,'FaceColor',[0.4784    0.4627    0.4627])
hold on
bar(years(less),precipitation(less),1,'FaceColor',[0.8000    0.8000    0.8000])
hold off
xticks(years)
xtickangle(45);

grid on
ylabel('August Precipitation (in)')
legend({'Higher than Average','Lower than Average'},'Location','northeast')

[Alexandra Rose]

Thank you! Really appreciate the hand-holding.