Will the matlab area plot have a zero order hold feature for the interpoloation method between points?

Would like this plot to show a series of steps...rather than interpolating linearly between points. -Andy

[Andrew Hunter]

I know that there are other methods...I have used the interp1 function to create a new data set with a 'previous' interpolation method...but with a large quantity of data and potentially large differences between data points on the time axis, this requires a fairly small time step for the new data set (such that the plot appears to be using a zero order hold between points of the original data set, but the time steps are really just so small that it appears to be a vertical line), and thus it takes a lot of extra time.

But it would be nice if this feature was in the plotting method.

-Andy

Answer 1

[Aleksandrs Gumenuks]

I found stairs function useful for my purposes:

https://de.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/stairs.html

It is part of discrete plot methods summarized here:

https://de.mathworks.com/help/matlab/stem-and-stair-plots.html