for some reason, when i am trying to make a bar graph which each datapoint plotted on each bar, the legend is not correct. only 2 of the 4 labels appear correctly

% Define a color palette (RGB values)

colorPalette = [0.2 0.4 0.6; % Example colors

0.8 0.2 0.4;

0.5 0.7 0.2;

0.9 0.6 0.1];

% Get the column indices of the selected columns (every 4th column starting from column 4)

NormObjAreaMm2 = 4:4:size(combinedTable, 2);

% Extract the data for the selected columns (excluding the last 3 rows)

data = combinedTable{1:end-3, NormObjAreaMm2};

% Get the column names for the selected columns

NormObjAreaMm2ColumnNames = combinedTable.Properties.VariableNames(NormObjAreaMm2);

% Determine the number of selected columns

NormObjAreaMm2NumColumns = numel(NormObjAreaMm2);

% Create a bar graph for each column with custom colors

figure;

hold on;

for i = 1:NormObjAreaMm2NumColumns

bar(i, mean(data(:,i)), 'FaceColor', colorPalette(i, :));

scatter(repmat(i, size(data, 1), 1), data(:,i), 'k', 'filled');

end

hold off;

% Set the x-axis label

xlabel('Total Normalized Object Count');

% Set the y-axis label

ylabel('mm^2');

% Remove the x-axis tick marks and labels

set(gca, 'XTick', []);

% Create the legend using the column names and custom colors

figureLegend = legend(NormObjAreaMm2ColumnNames);

legendEntries = get(figureLegend, 'String');

for i = 1:NormObjAreaMm2NumColumns

legendEntries{i} = sprintf('\\color[rgb]{%.2f,%.2f,%.2f}%s', colorPalette(i, :), legendEntries{i});

end

set(figureLegend, 'String', legendEntries);

Answer 1

[cdawg]

Your legend is showing the first four objects you plotted, which is bar, scatter, bar, scatter. You're only giving it 4 legend entries instead of 8, so I'm assuming you want only the bar or the scatter to show.

I'm not sure if you want the scatter plots to show in the legend or the bar plots, but whichever ones you want hidden from the legend, put 'HandleVisibility', 'off'. E.g. plot(x,y,'HandleVisibility', 'off').

I don't have access to your data, but here's an example:

barDat = [3 5 1];

scatterDat = [1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9];
cols = {'red','cyan','green'};
names = {'1','2','3'};

figure()
for ii = 1:length(barDat)
    bar(ii,barDat(ii),'FaceColor',cols{ii});
    hold on
    scatter(repmat(ii,size(scatterDat,2),1), scatterDat(ii,:),'k','filled','HandleVisibility','off')
end
l = legend(names);

[cdawg]

Unless you're talking about how the text is appearing in your legend, which it looks like you probably have some underscores in the legend names that is making the text subscripted...

[Asia Dofat]

I want the bar and the scatter to show, but i want the legend to only show the bar colors. For some reason dots are appearing as 2 of the legend markers

[cdawg]

So use scatter(x,y, "HandleVisibility", "off"). This might sound like it won't show in the figure, it will.. it just won't show in the legend.