MATLAB: How to stop scientific notation in polar plot axes

formatpolarplottick marks

I'm using the polarplot function and i get my nice plot but the "radius" values are printing in scientific notation. I found the rtickformat funtion to allow me to set the precision of the tick marks but when I use the formatting of rtickformat('%5.3f') to change the tick marks it gives me tick marks with labels like 2.000 x 10^-3 instead of 0.002 which is what I would prefer.
Does anyone know how I can make it turn off the scientific notation?

Best Answer

ax = gca;
ax.RAxis.Exponent = 0;