Re: plot a vector in a matrix

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 06/20/2018 06:59 PM, Luca Salardi wrote:
> hi,
> i've the following matrix:
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> i want to plot raws A (as X) and raws B (as Y)
so an example of your matrix is

matrix=[1 2 3 4 5 ; 11 22 33 44 55; 111 222 333 444 555; 1111 2222 3333 
4444 5555; 11111 22222 33333 44444 55555]

and I think you want to plot first two rows as x and y:

plot(matrix(1,:),matrix(2,:))

This reminds me to ask here for tips and tricks. Often, I have an x-y 
data file:

1 2
2 2.1
3 2.4
4 3.1
5 2.2
6 2.3

so I read it as

a=load('mydata')

and then plot with this idiom:

plot(a(:,1),a(:,2))

Is there a shortcut for a simple plot like that? The two-column data set 
is such a common use case that it would be nice if plot(a) did the same 
thing as the line above, or if there was a way to load the data into 
separate x and y vectors and plot them with plot(x,y). What's your shortcut?