How to dynamicly change the tick order for xticklabels

I am trying to do a graphic where I compaire multiple groups by creating a scatter plot where the hue of the dot corresponding to the effect size between compairisons. I need to run the compairisons for different features on the data groups, therefore I want to sort the groups dynamicly by the mean for each feature in the graphic.

I labeled the x- and y-axis such as:

yticks([1:25])
yticklabels({'Heel Up','Heel Dw', ...
    'Flat Up','Flat Dw','Swing Heel', ...
    'Swing Flat', ... .......
    });

where 1 = 'Heel Up', 2 = 'Heel Dw', ect.

For the new graph I already changed the order of the plots by creating the variable

label_neworder = [10,12,19,2,23,4,11,15,17,18,9,3,8,21,22,20,1,13,5,16,14,6,7]; % for example

I tried resorting the labels using categorical,

x_tick_labels = categorical(label_neworder,[1:25], ...
    {'Heel Up','Heel Dw', ...
    'Flat Up','Flat Dw','Swing Heel', ...
    'Swing Flat', ... .......
    })

but when I try to apply it I only get the error message:

xticklabels(x_tick_labels_cat);
% Error using xticklabels (line 43)
% Specify tick labels as cell array of character vectors, string array, or one of the 'mode', 'auto', or 'manual' options.

I would need to reformat "x_tick_labels", but I cannot quite figure out how to do so.

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

tickLabels = {'Heel Up','Heel Dw', ...
    'Flat Up','Flat Dw','Swing Heel', ...
    'Swing Flat', ... .......
    }; 
yticklabels(tickLabels(label_neworder));

[Katy Weihrich]

Now that I am seeing it, it is pretty obvious!

Thank you very much!

[Adam Danz]

That happens to the best of us!

Glad I could help.