Why does the formatting of my Y-axis tick labels change to exponential format when I plot my data?
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MathWorks Support Team
on 27 Jun 2009
Edited: MathWorks Support Team
on 17 May 2018
I am plotting x and y data as follows:
x = [1 2 3]
y = [10000 20000 30000]
plot(x,y)
However, once the figure is plotted the Y-axis tick labels are in exponential format 1 ,2 ,3 e+4 . I want the Y-axis tick labels to be in the same format as my original 'y' vector (i.e. 10000, 20000, etc.).
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MathWorks Support Team
on 17 May 2018
There are two possible workarounds:
1) You can set the Y-ticklabels explicity as follows:
x = [ 1 2 3 ];
y = [10000 20000 30000];
plot(x,y)
set(gca,'YTick',y)
set(gca,'XTick',x)
Yvalues = get(gca,'YTick');
set(gca,'YTickLabel',Yvalues);
2) You could also use the SPRINTF function to format your tick labels using the format of your choice. The 'XTickLabel' or 'YTickLabel' property of the axis would then use those strings as tick labels.
x=[1 2 3];
y=[10000 20000 30000];
plot(x,y)
set(gca,'XTickLabel',sprintf('%3.1f|',x))
set(gca,'XTick',x)
set(gca,'YTickLabel',sprintf('%4.1e|',y))
set(gca,'YTick',y)
For more information on the available formats, consult the documentation for the SPRINTF function:
doc sprintf
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Walter Roberson
on 28 Nov 2017
In R2017b you can instead
ax = gca;
ax.YRuler.Exponent = 0;
without setting the labels.
However, this might fail for some log plots.
The above code can also be fixed as,
set(gca,'XTickLabel', sprintfc('%3.1f',x))
set(gca,'YTickLabel', sprintfc('%4.1e',y))
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