Scatter with custom dateticks won't work

Hi,

I have two vectors containing numeric data. One has numeric timestamps and shall be plotted on the x-axis. I am using dateticks to get readable tickmarks. When I tried to control the amount of ticks, I get the problem, that the ticks start (e.g.) at 2005, go up to 2011 and then restart at 2005.

My code is the following (n containing both vectors in col 1 and 2):

      h = scatter(n(:,1),n(:,2),'x');
      datetick('x',2);
      set(gca,'XTick',min(n(:,1)):(max(n(:,1))-min(n(:,1)))/10:max(n(:,1)));

I'd provide an image but I can't find a solution to upload one in here...

[Walter Roberson]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/7924-where-can-i-upload-images-and-files-for-use-on-matlab-answers

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Try setting the tick values before using datetick()

[Vincent]

This works fine when using 'keepticks'-option in "datetick-command - thank you!