MATLAB: Set Square root axis scale

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How can I set the y axis scale to the square root as this graph here? I tried set(gca, 'yscale', 'lsqrt') but it didnt work!!!

thanks in advance

Experiment with this approach to get the result you want:

x = 0:100;
y = rand(size(x))*512;
figure
plot(x, y, '.')
grid
yt = [0 2.^(0:ceil(log2(max(y))))];
set(gca, 'YTick',yt, 'YScale','log')

Change the set call to:

set(gca,'YTick',1:1:8, 'YTickLabel',1:1:8);

Per

doc grid
grid(gca,'minor')

toggles the state of the minor grids and

grid on

turns only the major grid on. As the footnote says, use

hAx=gca;  % avoid repetitive function calls
set(hAx,'xminorgrid','on','yminorgrid','on')

to unequivocally set them in 'on' position

ADDENDUM

It would seem a reasonable enhancement request to add the 'ON|OFF' values to the 'MINOR' keyword to provide the specific functionality of

set(hAx,'xminorgrid','on','yminorgrid','on')