Re: warning: hist: bin values not sorted on input

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Nicholas Jankowski <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Jonathan Camilleri
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> sort(x)
>> ans =
>>
>>    1.1987   3.0540   3.7587   5.8433
>>
>>>> sort(y)
>> ans =
>>
>>    0.43359   0.76316   0.82807   1.76442
>>
>>>> hist(x,y)
>
> Can I assume that you were intending to sort x and y before passing
> them to hist? Because you didn't. You displayed them sorted, but you
> did not store the sorted versions anywhere.
>
> sort(x) displays the sorted version of x.  it was actually stored in
> the temporary variable ans, but you didn't actually change x or y.
>
> if you want them sorted before the hist you need to do:
>
>>> x = sort(x)
>
>>> y = sort(y)
>
>>> hist(x,y)
>
> OR
>
> hist(sort(x),sort(y))
>
>
> Nick J.
>
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If you just want to plot your values use

plot (x,y)

if you want to use bars to plot your data use

bars(x,y)

but X must be ascending.