Why is my plot not showing anything?

I typed in the following into my MATLAB command window:

>> figure

>> hold on

>> axis([-5, 5, -5, 5])

>> plot(3,4)

However, nothing shows up in my graph. How can I fix this?

[Stephen23]

plot(3,4)

plots one point with no marker: what do you expect to see?

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Try this:

figure
hold on
axis([-5, 5, -5, 5])
plot(3,4,'pg')

The default plot behaviour is to plot a line between successive points. When you give it only one point, it plots nothing unless you tell it to plot a marker, as I do here.

[Alec Chirinos]

I know that you where solving a simple question, but you did me a great favor.

[Star Strider]

My pleasure.

[Rachel Friedman]

two years later but this helped me so much