How can I add error bars to a stacked plot?

Trying to add errorbars to a stacked plot? Seems there's no way to do this which is a shame as I very much like the way a stacked plot presents the data by comparing 3 variables with distinctly different y-axes against my x variable.

figure()

s = stackedplot(dist, stack, "DisplayLabels", ylabels); % stacked plot

xlabel('Distance from Springhead (m)')

title('Carbonate Chemistry with Distance Downstream')

grid on

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

A (slightly tortured) tiledlayout array might work —

x = 0:0.5:10;
y = randn(3,numel(x));
err = randn(3,numel(x))/5;

figure
tiledlayout(3,1)
nexttile
errorbar(x, y(1,:), err(1,:))
Ax = gca;
Ax.XAxis.Visible = 'off';
% axis('padded')
nexttile
errorbar(x, y(2,:), err(2,:))
Ax = gca;
Ax.XAxis.Visible = 'off';
axis('padded')
nexttile
errorbar(x, y(3,:), err(3,:))
Ax = gca;
xt = Ax.XTick;
Ax.XAxis.Visible = 'off';
% axis('padded')
hold on
plot(xlim, [1 1]*min(ylim), '-k')
plot([1;1]*xt, [zeros(size(xt)); ones(size(xt))*0.07*diff(ylim)]+min(ylim),'-k')
hold off
text(xt, ones(size(xt))*min(ylim), string(xt), 'Horiz','center', 'Vert','top')

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[Arisha F]

Thanks that line turning the visible axis off saved me!

[Star Strider]

As always, my pleasure!

[Les Beckham]

Note that you can adjust the spacing between the "stacked" plots to tweak how it looks (experiment with it).

Also, you should use (or not use) axis('padded') on all three tiles.

x = 0:0.5:10;
y = randn(3,numel(x));
err = randn(3,numel(x))/5;

figure
tiledlayout(3,1, 'TileSpacing', 'tight') %<<< or 'compact' or 'none' (but 'none' looks bad here)
nexttile
errorbar(x, y(1,:), err(1,:))
Ax = gca;
Ax.XAxis.Visible = 'off';
grid on
% axis('padded')
nexttile
errorbar(x, y(2,:), err(2,:))
Ax = gca;
Ax.XAxis.Visible = 'off';
% axis('padded')
grid on
nexttile
errorbar(x, y(3,:), err(3,:))
Ax = gca;
xt = Ax.XTick;
Ax.XAxis.Visible = 'off';
% axis('padded')
hold on
plot(xlim, [1 1]*min(ylim), '-k')
plot([1;1]*xt, [zeros(size(xt)); ones(size(xt))*0.07*diff(ylim)]+min(ylim),'-k')
hold off
text(xt, ones(size(xt))*min(ylim), string(xt), 'Horiz','center', 'Vert','top')
grid on