Eliminating marks on bar graph

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Fran
Fran on 10 Oct 2014
Edited: Star Strider on 10 Oct 2014
Hello,
When I use the bar() plotting function, and input a given data set, for a particular binning (in the x-axis), the function plots the centers of the bins using the marker '*' on the x-axis, by default. I would like to remove these '*' marks on the x-axis. How do I write this in a code? I can do it using the GUI, but need it to be done via command line.
Regards,
F

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Star Strider
Star Strider on 10 Oct 2014
I’ve seen this problem mentioned before. It is a default behaviour of bar. There is a posted fix for it here: How can I prevent or remove the asterisk annotations on my BAR plot in MATLAB 7.6 (R2008a)?
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Fran
Fran on 10 Oct 2014
Hi, yes this is what I was looking for thanks! This does the trick:
h = findobj(gca,'Type','line');
set(h,'Marker','none');

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 10 Oct 2014
Is that a tick mark? You can get rid of x ticks doing something like this:
set(gca, 'xtick', []);
set(gca, 'xticklabels', []);
or something like that.
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Kelly Kearney
Kelly Kearney on 10 Oct 2014
The stars are an odd peculiarity of the 'histc' option... I'm not sure what the original programmer's motivation was, but if your bin widths are not even, markers are placed along the x-axis at each bin edge. The handle to this line object isn't returned, so you'll have to handle-dive to get rid of them:
delete(findobj('marker', '*'));
as Star mentioned above.
I'd be curious to know where this convention came from... I use the 'histc' option with bar all the time, but it is an undocumented legacy option (and is implemented via barV6.m, which "is undocumented and may change in a future release"), so I too discovered the * behavior accidentally.
Star Strider
Star Strider on 10 Oct 2014
Edited: Star Strider on 10 Oct 2014

Kelly — I believe I first learned about it from one of your posts.

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