Matlab scatter plot set x-axis and y-axis

I have an array with two columns (date, value) to plot

What I want is to set the labels to show the values on y-axis (e.g 918.5345).

ALso, the x-axis to be just the values on (date) ... (e.g 2002 2003 2004 ...) and not 2002.5 2003.5

I use Matlab R2016a

date = [2002 2003 2004 2005 ....] %sometimes 2003 2005 2006 2009 and so on%

value = [918.5345 918.5361 918.5354 ....] 

When I plot a scatter as follows:
subplot(3,1,1);
hold on;
scatter(date,value,'+');
grid on
xlabel('Time') 
ylabel('Y(m)')
hold off

Answer 1

[Nathan Jessurun]

Take a look at the xticks function:

plot(1:10)
% Only show 1, 5, 10 on the x axis
xticks([1 5 10])

What do you mean by you want to show labels on the y axis? Are you asking for this:

xData = 1:4;
yData = 1:5:20;

scatter(xData,yData);
xticks(xData);
yticks(yData);

[Mohammed Hammad]

I mean to show labels on the axes as follows:

on X-axis:

the dates (2002 2003 2004 2005) ( without 2002.5, 2003.5)

On Y-Axis:

format of (918.5345 918.5361 ....) not the interval from -4 to 0

Please note that in Matlab version R2016a that I have, the xticks, yticks are not working.

[Nathan Jessurun]

I see that xticks was added in 2016b.

In your case, you can try

xData = 5:10;
yData = 800:200:1800;

scatter(xData,yData);
% Get current axis
fig = gcf;
ax = fig.Children;

ax.XTick = xData;
ax.YTick = yData;

[Mohammed Hammad]

Thanks a lot , it looks more better now.