Questions tagged [axis]
For labels, markings, or other information, related to an axis of a graph
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Why aren't empty ticks working with empty plots?
I need to do an empty plot for my students to fill. Surprisingly the options xtick=\empty and ytick=\empty do not work when the plot is empty:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\...
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missing a tick label that has been named
So I made this graph, and this graph can't show me the tick $\frac{5}{2}\pi$ at 7.85.
I've tried to enlarge the x max range, give extra ticks (and extra tick label) but nothing works. Anyone can help ...
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pgfplots: shift the xlabel in the middle of the diagram
What do I have to set, to get the xlabel exactly in the middle of the diagram?
\documentclass[]{book}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[font=\footnotesize]
\begin{axis}[
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Setting y axis discontinuity at a certain value
I got the following diagram, that I want to make discontinous at a certain value, so that the "unneccessary" parts are skipped.
I already tried adding an "axis y discontinuity", ...
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Minor ticks in log axis missing
I'm missing some minor y ticks in a logarithmic pgfplots axis:
This has been generated with:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
ymode=log,
ymax=31,
]
\addplot[only marks] coordinates {(0,0....
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Axis numbers overlapping. Any way to reduce the amount of ticks? [duplicate]
Just want to solve this problem, don't need any fancy solution for now, just reducing the amount of ticks should be enough, but couldn't get any close after looking for a while in the PGF manual.
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Shortened axis in axis environment
With the axis enviroment in TikZ, how can I make the "shortened" horisontal axis? TIA.
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Pgfplots, reverse y dir has no effect in 3D matrix plot
In the PGFPlots manual, matrix plots are not listed among the 3D plot types. However, they seem to work just fine, especially to plot planar data, except for, apparently, the y dir=reverse option ...
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White background behind axis ticks [duplicate]
I couldn't find any solution to this specific problem, just with nodes.
I want to make a white background behind all xlabel ticks, so the labels can be read again.
My minimal code:
\documentclass[...
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Bar graph with tikzpicture
I have this bar chart, but I can't see all the labels in the x axis.
What am I missing?
Also, entropy bar is not in the right place.
Thank you.
\begin{figure}[h!]
\begin{tikzpicture}
\small
\begin{...
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Color list not working
When I try to color the addplot using cycle list name=color list it doesn't work for some reason, the color of all the lines stays black. Here is my code:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage[utf8]{...
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How to draw a cartesian plane like this?
I read some topics but I still don't know how to draw this cartesian plane, someone could help? My difficulty is how to draw the intersection.
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How to draw ROC plan with horizontal and vertical legends?
I would like to know how to make an axis identical to the one in the picture with all captions and grids.
I have tried a few ways, but I can't make it. If someone can help me it would be great
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Labeling axis in π increments
i would like to lable my x-axis on a tikz-picture in π/4 increments, like in the wikipedia sin and cos graphic 1. This is my code (but it doesnt work):
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{lmodern} % ...
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pgfplots 3D: z-buffer not working, showing objects in wrong depth-order
I'm trying to create a simple 3D figure, using the following MWE:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.9}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\...
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Hide Axis labels in pgfplots - problem with the xticklabels=\empty
I followed the conversation at Hide tick numbers in a TikZ/PGF axis environment.. However, the xticklabels=\empty appears to not cover the exponential part. Here is the code.
\documentclass[12pt]{...
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How to draw an angle on a graph
So I have tried a variety of methods. \scope seems to move my graph to the side, as does the usage of tikz-euclide, as opposed to drawing over my graph.
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[xlabel=...
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coordinates on the x axis of tikz plot are incorrectly displayed
I am trying to draw a function as well as a shaded grid on the same axes. Although I use a step size of 1cm in the grid between -3 and 0, the xticks, as well as the shaded region look misplaced. how ...
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PGFplots: force thicks labels
I need your help. my ticks labels are inside the graph but I need outside, please, help me. my code is:
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1.3]
\centering
\begin{axis}[legend pos=...
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How to put fancy axes around a picture with TikZ? [duplicate]
I want to add axes around a picture with TikZ as shown in the following image. I think I can handle positioning the axes, but how can I set them to have this kind of look, rather than being just usual ...
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\tkzPointShowCoord not showing its xlabel
I'm trying to plot a std normal distribution filled to a certain point $z_\alpha$, the problem is that \tkzPointShowCoord label doesn't appear in the plot, the following is the code i used:
\...
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LaTeX timeline graphic for Phanerozoic Eon
I'm looking for a LaTeX (tikz?) timeline graphic for the Phanerozoic Eon (See GSA GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE v. 5.0), preferably with a single horizontal axis, similar to the timeline formats presented at ...
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Tikz - Custom number of points on axis and equally linespace
How can I reproduce this plot?
This is for now my code. I miss only add an equaly linespace on x-axis and the points (k-f_s(k)).
\documentclass[crop,tikz,convert={outext=.svg,command=\unexpanded{...
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Pgfplots: plot exponentially halving x values at regular intervals
I want to plot a dataset with pgfplots. In my dataset, 0 < x < 1 and everything interesting happens for values of x close to 1. In particular, the interesting points happen at halving intervals ...
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pgfplot polaraxis y tick labels overlapping
I am just trying to create a polar axis plot with yticks being 0.5,0.75,...2.5. However, when I go through with it using:
documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[a4paper, margin=...
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PGF plot with two y-axis and time format x-axis [closed]
I am having trouble setting the axes for a plot that I want to do. My goal is to have time on the x-axis in format hh:mm:ss and two different y-axes. Somehow, the compilation is weird. Also, I will ...
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Years on TiKZ plot axis are wrong
im building this plot:
I finished it successfully, but as you see years on X-Axis are shown incorrectly. Instead of 2017 it shows 2,017 . Please help me!
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[xlabel={ 1 ...
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Fixing histogram drawn using pgfplots [duplicate]
I need to fix my histogram by:
Setting the x coords vertically so that the text will be readable without pushing each other.
Removing the exponential notations.
Also I'm not getting why the vertical ...
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axis lines (spines) of axis offset, and extents to fit last ticks
Consider the image below. There are two properties I would like to replicate with PGFplots
Some spines (i.e. axis lines) should be removed (top and right)
The spines are pushed outward such that the ...
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pgfplots add xtick from array
I have \points array and I want to add xtick and ytick on my axis automatically from it. How can I do that?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\def\...
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Set Global Axis Options PGFPLOTS
for some reason setting global options using pgfplotsset while drawing a global legend using the tikz library matrix, does not work. The legend actually does not show at all, so something is wrong. I ...
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Overlap of function with number on the axis (pgfplots)
I am plotting a function with pgfplots and I get an overlap of the function with a number on the axis like this:
This is the code I am using:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\...
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How to draw the image in beamer?
I intend to draw the following image in beamer presentation. May you please help me to draw that?
I intend to use the following code but it gives an error about package. Of course, the code is not ...
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Generate bar chart with pgfplots with doubling ticks [duplicate]
I am trying to generate an easy bar chart with 4 bars in pgfplots. I don't know why, but the x coordiantes are now twice on the x axis without an actual value.
What I wanted to have was only 4 bars ...
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2 3D plots in one graph: changing colors and z bounds are ignored?
I am trying to plot two 3D plots in one graph, but Latex stops recognizing the zmin and zmax values for some reason, so it doesn't compile because dimensions are too large. Reducing the number of ...
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Axis with 4 columns
I would like to create something like this picture:
but on the axis XY like this:
How can I build such a figure divided into 4 parts? And how to place these additional fields on them, in this ...
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PGFPLOTS incomplete grid, missing minor grid both right and up directions [duplicate]
I am making a file with pgfplot package and I want the grid to be with minor grids line complete from both sides, this is my trial:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage{...
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Imaginary unit automatic setup in tick marks for imaginary axis
I have seen solutions like this and this (in the question section), but they don't use the axis subenvironment in the tikzpicture environment.
If I make a 2-D plot, the ticks, tick marks, and tick ...
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tikz: Clipping everything outside the axis
Clipping everything outside the axis is doable in pgfplots, but drawing lattices has not been great for me there because \foreach doesn't quite work inside axis environment. The code I came up with is ...
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Center axis labels above axis arrows in coordinate plot
I need a coordinate system with four quadrants and what to center the labels over the x- and y-axis arrows.
I am able to do this manually using xshift and yshift but I would prefer to have something ...
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pfgplots tick label alignment
I am trying to generate economics graphs using pgfplots. The default for tick labels is to be centred. Is there any way that I can get a tick label to be aligned to the left or right?
My aim is to ...
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How do I make a operation inside a node?
I have a graph that's out of scale, but I want to use it for a class I'm preparing. For me to use it, I'd need just to change the numbers in the axis. I'd like to make every x multiplied by 2. I tried ...
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Smithchart affects me the axes of other tikzpiture graphics [closed]
Smithchart affects me the axes of other tikzpicture graphics. Place the x axis up, it does not allow to move the x-axis.
I've already tried everything and just basic smithchart affects it. It is not a ...
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How to create a histogram with intervalls and symbols with pgfplots?
I am trying to recreate a histogram with pgfplots in TeX that i have orignaly created with Excel:
The problem that i have is that i don't know how to recreate the x-axis with pgfplots. So far I have ...
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Making y-axis jump 2 on every tickmark
I'm trying to mak af graph, my problem is that I would like to make the y-axis marks go from -2, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12.... for every mark.
But I can not succed.
Here is my code.
\documentclass[tikz, ...
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How to plot atan2(x,y) like?
How do i plot atan2(y,x) like the Wikipedia picture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atan2#/media/File:Atan2_diagram.svg
I tried
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.10}...
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Use year as label for monthly data histogram
I have data in the format year,month and amount. I want to illustrate this data using a histogram. Since the data covers multiple years, printing the months just stacks everything. I try to use the ...
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Scale axis to be 1:1 scale in pgfplots
I am trying to draw a plot as following:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.17}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis} [
axis lines=...
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Undefined control sequence inside \foreach in tikz axis
I get an error when running the following code:
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{MWE}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[declare function={f(\x)=\x^3-3*\x^2+\x;}]
\addplot[red] {f(x)};
\...
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pgfplots move axis label together with axis line
I would like to have the y axis labels of all plots in my document above the y axis line. Usually that is above origin but sometimes I have to move the line out of the way. What I am looking for is a ...
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