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Create graphs with y-axes on both left and right side
Syntax
plotyy(X1,Y1,X2,Y2) plotyy(X1,Y1,X2,Y2,'function') plotyy(X1,Y1,X2,Y2,'function1','function2') [AX,H1,H2] = plotyy(...)
Description
plotyy(X1,Y1,X2,Y2)
plots X1
versus Y1
with y-axis labeling on the left and plots X2
versus Y2
with y-axis labeling on the right.
plotyy(X1,Y1,X2,Y2,function)
uses the specified plotting function to produce the graph.
function
can be either a function handle or a string specifying plot
, semilogx
, semilogy
, loglog
, stem
, or any MATLAB function that accepts the syntax
Function handles enable you to access user-defined subfunctions and can provide other advantages. See @ for more information on using function handles.
plotyy(X1,Y1,X2,Y2,'function1','function2')
uses function1(X1,Y1)
to plot the data for the left axis and function2(X2,Y2)
to plot the data for the right axis.
[AX,H1,H2] = plotyy(...)
returns the handles of the two axes created in AX
and the handles of the graphics objects from each plot in H1
and H2
. AX(1)
is the left axes and AX(2)
is the right axes.
Examples
This example graphs two mathematical functions using plot
as the plotting function. The two y-axes enable you to display both sets of data on one graph even though relative values of the data are quite different.
x = 0:0.01:20; y1 = 200*exp(-0.05*x).*sin(x); y2 = 0.8*exp(-0.5*x).*sin(10*x); [AX,H1,H2] = plotyy(x,y1,x,y2,'plot');
You can use the handles returned by plotyy
to label the axes and set the line styles used for plotting. With the axes handles you can specify the YLabel
properties of the left- and right-side y-axis:
Use the xlabel
and title
commands to label the x-axis and add a title:
Use the line handles to set the LineStyle
properties of the left- and right-side plots:
See Also
plot
, loglog
, semilogx
, semilogy
, axes properties XAxisLocation
, YAxisLocation
See Using Multiple X- and Y-Axes for more information.
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