How can I plot Months in x axis in Matlab

I have a excel sheet

Jan =-9.863459038
Feb=-34.33708151
Mar=-57.98922801
Apr=-52.98083559
May=-46.13563686
Jun=-24.15487463
Jul=-8.47398491
Aug=-4.773884307
Sep=-10.32493525
Oct=-7.700825238
Nov=6.015198544
Dec=11.1233672

I have to plot a graph whose x axis is month.I want to plot it by Jan,Feb etc. How can I do it.

Answer 1

[Michael Haderlein]

You can set the xticklabels:

 y=rand(1,12);
 figure, plot(y)
 set(gca,'xtick',1:12,...
 'xticklabel',{'Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun','Jul','Aug','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dec'})

[Tanmoyee Bhattacharya]

Thank you sir.This is really useful.If we want to make a bar chart how can we change this code?

[Michael Haderlein]

Just replace "plot" with "bar". Also, you can leave out the part 'xtick',1:12,' as bar plots have xticks at all bars anyway, I think.

[per isakson]

Answer by Tanmoyee Bhattacharya on 1 Apr 2015

Thanks sir. It works..

[ntambara owen]

Thanks Michael Haderlein

It works.....

[Dedong Huang]

Hello,

I just tried this method with my data and it plotted a line graph but the y axis is less than 1 and my y axis data on my table are all above 5, how do i fix this?