MATLAB: How to get a stacked bar graph with a single bar

Question

Hello,

I am trying to get a single bar using the stacked property:

figure; bar([0.2 0.8], 'stacked')

This does not create a single stacked bar, it creates two bars of height 0.2 and 0.8.

A work-around is:

figure;bar([0.2 0.8; 1 1],'stacked'); set(gca,'xlim',[0.5 1.5])

But this seems like a silly thing to have to do.

Does anyone know why the stacked input doesn't seem to work for a single bar?

Thanks.

Answer 1

One possibility for a workaround:

v = [0.2  0.8];
figure; 
bar(sum(v), 'y')
hold on
bar(v(1), 'b')
hold off