How to make a vertical label horizontal?

Hi, I am trying to give each bar a label. However, when I try to do it, it displays the label vertically, but I would like to have it horizontally otherwise it doesn't fit.. Does anyone know how to do that?? Thanks!!!

x = 1:1:15;
y = vMean(1:15);
name = {'gross', 'comp', 'rate', 'inv', 'gross', 'comp', 'rate', 'inv', 'gross', 'comp', 'rate', 'inv','gross', 'comp', 'rate'}
figure(6);
bar(x,y);
set(get(gca, 'XTicklabel'),'rotation', name);

[Jan]

Today I've edited your message to improve the readability. I've selected the code and pressed the "{} Code" button.

Answer 1

[Rik]

How about this:

x = 1:15;
y = randi([10 30],size(x));
name = {'gross', 'comp', 'rate', 'inv', 'gross', 'comp', 'rate', 'inv', 'gross', 'comp', 'rate', 'inv','gross', 'comp', 'rate'};
figure(6);clf(6)
bar(x,y);
set(gca, 'XTick',min(x):max(x))
set(gca, 'XTickLabel',name)
set(gca,'XTickLabelRotation', 90)

[Jan]

+1. It can be important to set the XTicks also. The output is confusing, if the number of Ticks differ from the number of TickLabels. This does not happen for bar plots, but it for a general solution it is safer, to define them both.

Answer 2

[Jan]

set(get(gca, 'XTicklabel'),'rotation', name)

Almost. But:

get(gca, 'XTicklabel')

gets the strings of the XTickLabels as cell string. Not useful here. Better:

set(gca, 'XTicklabel', name, 'XTickLabelRotation', 90)

[Image Analyst]

Or, for versions later than R2014b

ax = gca;
ax.XTickLabel = name;
ax.XTickLabelRotation = 90;

if you want the OOP way of setting properties like other languages use.

Answer 3

[Laurel Borggreve]

Great thank you guys!!