multi bar labeling plot
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I want to label each three bars as p1, p2 and p3 for all at the base as the pic attached.. i appreciate any help someone can provide.
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Adam Danz
on 16 May 2019
Edited: Adam Danz
on 10 Dec 2021
Here's how to locate the center of each grouped bar and label them.
Starting in Matlab R2019B, the center of each bar is stored in
h = bar(___);
h.XEndPoints % x centers
h.YEndPoints % y endpoints
Prior to Matlab R2019B, you can use an undocumented property "XOffset". This was developed and tested in r2019a.
xCnt are the bar centers.
% Generate grouped bar plot
figure()
v = randi(20,12,3);
h = bar(v,.8);
% Get group centers
xCnt = get(h(1),'XData') + cell2mat(get(h,'XOffset')); % XOffset is undocumented!
% Create Tick Labels
xLab = repmat({'p1','p2','p3'},1,numel(xCnt)/3);
% Set individual ticks
set(gca, 'XTick', sort(xCnt(:)), 'XTickLabel', xLab)
Alternatively, you could rotate the x tick labels
set(gca, 'XTick', sort(xCnt(:)), 'XTickLabel', xLab, 'xticklabelrotation', 90)
% Or use xtickangle(): https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/xtickangle.html
The best solution would be to use a legend
legend(h,{'p1','p2','p3'})
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Adam Danz
on 19 May 2019
Edited: Adam Danz
on 19 May 2019
% xLab are the labels for each individual bar. The pattern you want is the following:
% for every odd triplet, you want [nothing, #, nothing]
% and for every even triplet you want [p#, p#, p#].
% We already have the p# labels so we just need to alter the odd number groups.
% Step 1) Identify the odd number groups.
isOdd = repmat(logical([1,1,1,0,0,0]),1,length(xLab)/6);
% Step 2) Create new labels
newLabs = strsplit(sprintf('| |%d| |', 1:2:length(xLab)/3),'|');
newLabs(cellfun(@isempty, newLabs)) = [];
% Step 3) replace the p# labels for odd groups with [nothing, #, nothing]
xLab(isOdd) = newLabs;
% Step 4) assing newlabels to plot
set(gca, 'XTick', sort(xCnt(:)), 'XTickLabel', xLab, 'xticklabelrotation', 90)
More Answers (2)
Sulaymon Eshkabilov
on 16 May 2019
Hi Ali,
Here is a simple solution to your problem:
A= randi([15, 25], 13, 3); % Insert your data here
H = bar(A); shg
H(1).FaceColor='g';
H(2).FaceColor='r';
H(3).FaceColor='b';
Good luck.
Sergio Yanez-Pagans
on 21 Aug 2021
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Adam Danz
on 21 Aug 2021
Cool function, but how does that address the question of how to label the bar groups?
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