Adjusting axis limits

I am trying to have the axis limits automatically adjust. I know they do by default, but they way it does it, the extreme data points are right on the edge of the plot. Is there any way to specify a margin?

I looked in axis properties but didn't see anything.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

No, there is no mechanism for specifying a margin.

[Jared]

Not a huge deal, I can manually find individually the min and max x&y of each cell, then the actual min and max x&y. The only issue I run into is in finding the max. Some cells I set to Inf (as a "place holder" for my plotting operation - discussed in another question). Obviously max for those cells will be Inf. Is there a way to ignore that value and just find the max of the "real" numbers?

[Walter Roberson]

max(YourData(isfinite(YourData(:)))

Or use NaN instead of inf, as max() ignores NaN.

[Jan]

Exactly for this task I'm using MinMaxElem(Y, 'finite'): http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/30963-minmaxelem .