How to plot a line given a point and a direction

If you are given the vector equation of a line with point P0 = [0:0] and direction vector v = [0:1] how do you plot this line in Matlab?

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P1 = P0 + v;
Then if you do not need an arrowhead,
plot([P0(1), P1(1)], [P0(2), P1(2)])
If you do need an arrowhead then see https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/278-arrow. You could also use annotation('arrow') but annotations use figure coordinates rather than being relative to the plot.

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on 25 Jan 2018

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on 25 Jan 2018

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