Re: Marking axes at irregular intervals

[Ivan Sutoris]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:04 AM, strontium90<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have two vectors, x in [-1 100] and y in [0 100] that I would like to
> plot y versus x. However, I would like to have the x and y axes marked
> and labeled at the locations of vector components, for example 1, 2, 3,
> 4, 5, 10, 15, 20, ... on the x axis, preferably preserving aspect ratio.
> Function plot systematically divides the axes at equal intervals 20, 40,
> 60, 80 and 100. Discrete functions bar and hist behave similarly. I'm
> unable to come up with a solution with the function axis.
> All tips are greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>
> --Razmig

Hi

assuming you have your data in variables X, Y and desired ticks in
XTICKS, YTICKS (as vectors):

figure
plot(X,Y)
set(gca(), 'xtick', XTICKS)
set(gca(), 'ytick', YTICKS)

Regards
Ivan Sutoris