MATLAB: Two Bar Plots on one graph, with the bars next to each other, not on top of.

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Hi guys,

As the title suggests I want to make a bar graph. I have 2 histograms and the values for xOut are the same. If I try to use hold on, or in fact plotYY, the bars are plotted directly over the top of each other. What I want is a bar plot where the bars for each bin are next to each other, and it would be nice to have them in a different colour. 🙂

Thanks in advance.

Tim

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bar([1 2],[pi exp(1);1 4])

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Using my magic ball I will try to answer the question with one example made by me and based on the reference at the bottom

fruit = [2 5 6 7]
h=bar(fruit)
l={'apples', 'oranges', 'strawberries', 'pears'}
y=get(h,'Ydata');
x=get(h,'Xdata');
text(x-x(1)/3,y/2,l,'FontSize',18)

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MATLAB: How to explicitly change the colors of the bars in a stacked bar graph

You can use the Color Data (CData) property for bar graph released in R2017b.

You can change the color for a particular bar by setting the FaceColor property to 'flat'. Then, change the corresponding row in the CData matrix to the new RGB triplet. Here is the link for the CData property in bar graph:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/bar.html#input_argument_namevalue_d119e63137

For example,

a = [1,3,6;2,5,6;8,2,1];
H=bar(a, 'stacked');
colorSet = [];
for i = 1:3
    myColors = round(rand(3,3),1);
    colorSet = [colorSet myColors];
    H(i).FaceColor = 'flat';
    H(i).CData = myColors;
 end
This will display the stacked bar plot with different colors.

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