Plot where x axis is the date, Part 2 (edited)

I would like to have x axis of the plot between April 20 2016 and May 18 2018. Please advise how to modify an example

xlim(datetime(2014,[7 8],[12 23]))
xtickformat('dd-MMM-yyyy')

(https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/plot-dates-and-durations.html)

to the above setting.

Answer 1

[Varun Garg]

Suppose you want to plot a graph for dates between July 1,2012 to July 1,2016. One possible implementation is as follows:

xMin= datetime(2012,7,1)
xMax= datetime(2016,7,1)
xlim([xMin,xMax])

You can change the code accordingly now. Hope this works for you.

Answer 2

[Nithin Banka]

Assuming that you have the same number of data points as the number of dates. Create a datetime vector for the duration and plot your data against the datetime vector.

 datetimeVector = datetime(2016, 4, 20):datetime(2018, 5, 18);
 plot(datetimeVector, yourData); %yourData is what you want to plot against the duration
 xlim([datetimeVector(1) datetimeVector(end)]);
 xtickformat('dd-MM-yyyy');

Answer 3

[monika shivhare]

xlim(datetime([2016 2018],[4 5],[20 18]))
xtickformat('dd-MMM-yyyy')

[alpedhuez]

This did not work.

[Nithin Banka]

For this to work, you need the x-axis values to be in 'datetime' datatype or else, this gives an error.