How to use string cells as marker types?

scatter([1],[1],20,'filled','o');

is working, but the following not:

markers = {'o','s','d'};
scatter([1],[1],20,'filled',markers{1});

Why? How to fix this?

[Thorsten]

What exactly do you mean by "it is not working"? I can get different markers with this command.

[Subhra Saha]

Mr. M,

I tried the following code snippet and it produces a plot with a marker.

markers = {'o','s','d'}; 
scatter([1],[1],20,'filled',markers{1});

It will be helpful to know what is the result that you are expecting and also the MATLAB release that you are using.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Your code hints that you might be trying to use different markers for different points within one scatter() call, such as if you had done

scatter(rand(1,3),rand(1,3),20,'filled',markers);

hoping that the first point would use the first marker, the second point would use the second marker, and so on.

Any one call to scatter() can only use a single marker type. This is a restriction on scatter(). You can change the marker size for each point and you can change the marker color for each point, but you can only use a single marker type per call.

[Royi Avital]

I wish `scatter()` supported list of Markers like in MatPlotLib.