MATLAB: Words as x axis

Question

Hello, I'm using MatLab for my cs class in college, it's an intro class and I know close to nothing about coding.

I would like to make a graph of x and y values, I understand that part, with numbers though.

My x values are i guess words instead of numbers, how do I represent that?

Thank you!

Answer 1

First, you can create Words

Words = {'word_one'; 'word_two'; 'word_three'};

then plot what ever you want, and after plot part:

set(gca,'xtick',[1:3],'xticklabel',Words)

Further, you can read Label x-axis.

If you want to rotate Words after doing this, as I can predict, it you can read this documentation: xtickangle