how to compare two values

I want to compare two sets of vaues and plot bar graph

apple=[56 90 23 12 34] orange=[23 45 56 90 10] these two in y axis

and in X axis

months=['jan','feb','mar','apr','may']

i need to plot these in different colours

say apple in red

and orange in green

i want to compare in month of jan,feb ,mar,apr,may,how many apples and oranges were there

please help

Answer 1

[Wayne King]

apple=[56 90 23 12 34];
orange=[23 45 56 90 10];
data = [apple' orange'];
hbar = bar(data);
set(hbar(1),'facecolor',[1 0 0]);
set(hbar(2),'facecolor',[0 1 0]);
set(gca,'xticklabel',{'jan','feb','mar','apr','may'})

[FIR]

thanks wayne i did not get the colour as i indicated

[Wayne King]

do

hbar = bar(data);

set(hbar(1),'facecolor',[1 0 0]);

set(hbar(2),'facecolor',[0 1 0]);

[FIR]

thanks a lot wayne,now is it possible to draw graps for these data using plot command,in y axis the datas are there corresponding to that the plot graph must be marked

[Wayne King]

Not sure what you're getting at. Do you mean something like:

plot(data(:,1),'r-^','markerfacecolor',[1 0 0]);

hold on

plot(data(:,2),'g-o','markerfacecolor',[0 1 0]);

[FIR]

exactly wayne thanks a lot,finally ....

months=['jan','feb','mar','apr','may'],these were horizontal in x axis ,can these be made vertical

foe example in bar graph for one bar the x axis label is jan

can this be labelled as

n

a

j

[Ilham Hardy]

You can probably use this:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/8722

By the way,

the "set(hbar(2),'facecolor',[0 1 0]);" is not correct.

The correct answer should be at least:

"set(hbar(2),'facecolor',[1 0.69 0.39]);"

see?

HTH

ilham