# y-bar, symbolic x-coords not showing up

I'm trying to produce a y bar plot, that sometimes has data and sometimes doesn't. Yet, it has two plots and needs to get them right next to each other. Here is as close as I was able to get:

As you can see, the x ticks for the last four entries don't show up. Any idea why?

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}

\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usetikzlibrary{spy, pgfplots.statistics}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
\usepgfplotslibrary{dateplot, external, statistics}
\tikzexternalize
\pgfplotsset{
boxplot/every average/.style={%
/tikz/mark=diamond*,
},
compat=1.14,
grid style={densely dotted},
every legend/.append style={
pos={outer north east},
font={\scriptsize}},
}
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{amber}{rgb}{1.0, 0.75, 0.0}%
\definecolor{bluegray}{RGB}{1, 171, 170}%
\definecolor{neuesrot}{RGB}{207, 103, 102}%
\definecolor{ultramarin}{RGB}{40, 109, 168}%
\definecolor{grauu}{RGB}{29, 39, 49}%
\definecolor{hellesgrau}{RGB}{216, 216, 216}%

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[width=12cm, bar shift=0pt, ymax=35, ymin=0,ybar, x tick label style={font=\tiny,rotate=75,anchor=east,}, xtick=data, symbolic x coords={BGH\_0.65\_160,BGH\_0.65\_190,BGH\_0.8\_160,BGH\_0.8\_190,BGH2\_0.65\_1\_190,BGH2\_0.65\_1\_160,BGH2\_0.8\_1\_190, BGH2\_0.8\_1\_160,DEW\_0.65\_160,DEW\_0.65\_190,DEW\_0.8\_160,DEW\_0.8\_190,BGH\_0.8\_2.2\_160\_2.V,BGH\_0.65\_2.2\_190\_2.V,DEW\_0.65\_2.2\_160\_2.V, DEW\_0.65\_2.2\_190\_2.V}]
\addplot [color=neuesrot, fill=neuesrot]coordinates {(BGH\_0.65\_160,3)(BGH\_0.65\_190,4)(BGH\_0.8\_160,8)(BGH\_0.8\_190,3)(DEW\_0.65\_160,6)   (DEW\_0.65\_190,6)  (DEW\_0.8\_160,5)   (DEW\_0.8\_190,6)(BGH\_0.8\_2.2\_160\_2.V,2)(BGH\_0.65\_2.2\_190\_2.V,2)(DEW\_0.65\_2.2\_160\_2.V,3)(DEW\_0.65\_2.2\_190\_2.V,3)};

\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{figure}
\end{document}


## Edit by Manuel -- Possible MWE

\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}

\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{pgfplots}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
ymax=5,
ymin=0,
ybar,
xtick=data,
enlargelimits=true,
symbolic x coords=
{
A,
B,
C,
}
]
{
(A,1)
(B,2)
};
{
(B,2)
(C,2)
};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

• Take care when you add an image, that the code is deselected first. As you can see in your code, you have $ and $ instead of [ and ] throughout the code, so would be nice if you could fix that. – Torbjørn T. Mar 6 '17 at 15:58
• Duplicate: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/160869 I also edited your question and propose a possible MWE. – Dr. Manuel Kuehner Mar 6 '17 at 16:23

xtick=data only reads the data from the first \addplot it seems. A workaround is to add zero-values for the four missing data points in the first plot.

Code below, after removing the unused stuff from your example. \tikzexternalize in particular is unwanted, as I don't usually compile with shell-escape enabled, and without it you get an error. Note also that you load the color package twice, but pgfplots already loads xcolor, so that isn't really necessary.

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{scrreprt}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{
compat=1.14,
every axis/.append style={grid, width=0.7\textwidth, height=5cm, tick label style ={font=\small}, label style={font=\scriptsize}, max space between ticks=35},
grid style={densely dotted},
}
\definecolor{amber}{rgb}{1.0, 0.75, 0.0}%
\definecolor{neuesrot}{RGB}{207, 103, 102}%

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
width=12cm,
ymax=35,
ymin=0,
ybar,
bar shift=0pt, % this must be after ybar to have effect
x tick label style={font=\tiny,rotate=75,anchor=east},
xtick=data,
symbolic x coords={BGH\_0.65\_160,BGH\_0.65\_190,BGH\_0.8\_160,BGH\_0.8\_190,BGH2\_0.65\_1\_190,BGH2\_0.65\_1\_160,BGH2\_0.8\_1\_190, BGH2\_0.8\_1\_160,DEW\_0.65\_160,DEW\_0.65\_190,DEW\_0.8\_160,DEW\_0.8\_190,BGH\_0.8\_2.2\_160\_2.V,BGH\_0.65\_2.2\_190\_2.V,DEW\_0.65\_2.2\_160\_2.V, DEW\_0.65\_2.2\_190\_2.V}]