{"id":2941,"date":"2011-11-18T13:33:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T13:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2011\/11\/18\/errorbar-with-adjusted-tick-size\/"},"modified":"2011-11-18T13:33:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T13:33:52","slug":"errorbar-with-adjusted-tick-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2011\/11\/18\/errorbar-with-adjusted-tick-size\/","title":{"rendered":"Errorbar with Adjusted Tick Size"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jiro<\/a>'s pick this week is Errorbar with Adjusted Tick<\/a> by Arnaud Laurent<\/a>.\r\n <\/p>\r\n

Just this week, I got a comment<\/a> from Felipe on a guest post (\"Making Pretty Graphs\"<\/a>) that I did on Loren's blog. He pointed out this function by Arnaud that helps adjust the size of the horizontal ticks at\r\n the top and bottom of the errorbars<\/tt><\/a> that I had to fix manually in the post. Thanks Felipe for the tip!\r\n <\/p>\r\n

The errorbar<\/tt> automatically determines the tick size based on the limits of the axes, and there is no simple option to change that. However,\r\n the function can return a handle to errorbarseries<\/tt><\/a>, and you can modify the tick size by digging into its properties. That's what I did in my blog post. Now, it's even easier\r\n with Arnaud's errorbar_tick<\/tt>. I echo Felipe's comment on the entry page that it's nice how errorbar_tick<\/tt> works on the handle returned by the errorbar<\/tt> function, rather than recreating the functionality available in errorbar<\/tt>.\r\n <\/p>\r\n

Create a standard errorbar<\/tt> plot:\r\n <\/p>

x = 1:10;\r\ny = sin(x);\r\ne = std(y)*ones(size(x));\r\nh = errorbar(x,y,e, 'o-'<\/span>);\r\nset(h, 'MarkerSize'<\/span>, 10, 'MarkerFaceColor'<\/span>, [.3 1 .3], ...<\/span>\r\n    'MarkerEdgeColor'<\/span>, [0 .5 0]);<\/pre> 
Apply errorbar_tick<\/tt> to increase tick size:\r\n   <\/p>
errorbar_tick(h, 30);<\/pre> 
Comments<\/b><\/p>\r\n   
Let us know what you think here<\/a> or leave a comment<\/a> for Arnaud.\r\n   <\/p>