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how to plot string data on x axes
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Muhammad
on 29 May 2021
Commented: Scott MacKenzie
on 29 May 2021
my workspace
cases 333*1 double
names 333*1 cell
names includes countries name
cases includes covid cases
i want to plot names on x axes and cases on y axes
plot(names ,cases)
>>Error using plot
Invalid first data argument
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Scott MacKenzie
on 29 May 2021
Edited: Scott MacKenzie
on 29 May 2021
% test data
cases = randi(100, 1, 5); % number of covid cases
names = { 'abc' 'def' 'ghi' 'jkl' 'mno' }; % country names
% organize data in cell array and sort
C = [num2cell(cases') names'];
C = sortrows(C, -1); % descending by number of cases
% cases on y axis, names on x axis
bar([C{:,1}]);
set(gca, 'xticklabels', C(:,2));
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Scott MacKenzie
on 29 May 2021
OK, good. I've modified the code to include sorting by number of covid cases in descending order.
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