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Document the use of the colormap for bar plots
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17 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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18 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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20 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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21 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} bar (@var{x}, @var{y})
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22 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} bar (@var{y})
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23 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} bar (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{w})
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24 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} bar (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{w}, @var{style})
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25 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} bar (@dots{}, @var{prop}, @var{val})
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26 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} bar (@var{h}, @dots{})
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27 ## Produce a bar graph from two vectors of x-y data.
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28 ##
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29 ## If only one argument is given, it is taken as a vector of y-values
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30 ## and the x coordinates are taken to be the indices of the elements.
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31 ##
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32 ## The default width of 0.8 for the bars can be changed using @var{w}.
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33 ##
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34 ## If @var{y} is a matrix, then each column of @var{y} is taken to be a
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35 ## separate bar graph plotted on the same graph. By default the columns
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36 ## are plotted side-by-side. This behavior can be changed by the @var{style}
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37 ## argument, which can take the values @code{"grouped"} (the default),
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38 ## or @code{"stacked"}.
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39 ##
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40 ## The optional return value @var{h} provides a handle to the "bar series"
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41 ## object with one handle per column of the variable @var{y}. This
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42 ## series allows common elements of the group of bar series objects to
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43 ## be changed in a single bar series and the same properties are changed
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44 ## in the other "bar series". For example
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45 ##
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46 ## @example
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47 ## @group
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48 ## h = bar (rand (5, 10));
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49 ## set (h(1), "basevalue", 0.5);
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50 ## @end group
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51 ## @end example
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52 ##
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53 ## @noindent
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54 ## changes the position on the base of all of the bar series.
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55 ##
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56 ## The optional input handle @var{h} allows an axis handle to be passed.
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57 ## Properties of the patch graphics object can be changed using
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58 ## @var{prop}, @var{val} pairs.
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59 ##
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60 ## The color of the bars is taken from the figure's colormap, such that
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61 ##
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62 ## @example
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63 ## @group
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64 ## bar (rand(10,3))
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65 ## colormap (summer ())
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66 ## @end group
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67 ## @end example
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68 ##
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69 ## will change the colors used for the bars. If you wish to force the bars to
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70 ## particular colors, this can be achieved like
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71 ##
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72 ## @example
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73 ## @group
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74 ## h = bar (rand(10,3))
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75 ## set (h(1), "facecolor", "r")
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76 ## set (h(2), "facecolor", "g")
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77 ## set (h(3), "facecolor", "b")
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78 ## @end group
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79 ## @end example
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80 ##
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81 ## @seealso{barh, plot}
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82 ## @end deftypefn
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84 ## Author: jwe
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86 function varargout = bar (varargin)
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87 varargout = cell (nargout, 1);
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88 [varargout{:}] = __bar__ (true, "bar", varargin{:});
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89 endfunction