Axis Ticks using Calendar Year ticks with BC years
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Charles Mina
on 23 Jan 2023
Commented: Walter Roberson
on 24 Jan 2023
I have some code here used for Grain Size analysis of a core, I wanted to correlate each point with an age, so I created a list with age of each with years and formatted them to use the 'yyyy G' format. however when I try to use the yticks command to create certain tick labels, it says that it cannot use the list since it is not "increasing" due to how the ISO labelling system works for years. is there a way to make this work? Code without and with system is below.
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plot(GSListNorm,DepthList)
set(gca,'YDir','reverse')
yyaxis left
xline(median(GSListNorm),"--r")
xlabel(["Normalized Grain Size at 90%"])
ylabel(["Depth";"(cm)"])
xlim([-2 5])
ylim([0 110])
yticks(0:10:max(DepthList))
yyaxis right
plot(GSListNorm,YearAge,LineStyle='none')
ylabel(["Age","Calendar Year"])
ytickformat('yyyy G')
saveas(gcf,'GSNoTrend','png')
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YearTicks = datetime('1950' '1725' '1501' '1277' '1053' '0828' '0604' '0380' '0156' '0069' '0293')% I know this code isn't right but these are the values of the list
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plot(GSListNorm,DepthList)
set(gca,'YDir','reverse')
yyaxis left
xline(median(GSListNorm),"--r")
xlabel(["Normalized Grain Size at 90%"])
ylabel(["Depth";"(cm)"])
xlim([-2 5])
ylim([0 110])
yticks(0:10:max(DepthList))
yyaxis right
plot(GSListNorm,YearAge,LineStyle='none')
ylabel(["Age","Calendar Year"])
ytickformat('yyyy G')
yticks(YearTicks)
saveas(gcf,'GSNoTrend','png')
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Error using yticks
Tick values must be a vector of increasing datetime values.
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Walter Roberson
on 23 Jan 2023
Moved: Walter Roberson
on 23 Jan 2023
YearTicks = datetime({'1950 CE'; '1725 CE'; '1501 CE'; '1277 CE'; '1053 CE'; '0828 CE'; '0604 CE'; '0380 CE'; '0156 CE'; '0069 CE'; '0293 BCE'}, 'Inputformat', 'yyyy G', 'Format', 'yyyy G');
plot(rand(1,length(YearTicks)), YearTicks)
yticks( sort(YearTicks))
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Walter Roberson
on 24 Jan 2023
yticks() requires that the values be given in increasing order, but your input YearTicks are in decreasing order.
You could also have done
yticks( flipud(YearTicks) )
but that is fragile against the possibility that YearTicks is already increasing, or against the possibility that YearTicks is a row vector instead of a column vector.
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