function varargout=shadedErrorBar(x,y,errBar,varargin) % generate continuous error bar area around a line plot % % function H=shadedErrorBar(x,y,errBar, ...) % % Purpose % Makes a 2-d line plot with a pretty shaded error bar made % using patch. Error bar color is chosen automatically. % % % Inputs (required) % x - vector of x values [optional, can be left empty] % y - vector of y values or a matrix of n observations by m cases % where m has length(x); % errBar - if a vector we draw symmetric errorbars. If it has a size % of [2,length(x)] then we draw asymmetric error bars with % row 1 being the upper bar and row 2 being the lower bar % (with respect to y -- see demo). ** alternatively ** % errBar can be a cellArray of two function handles. The % first defines statistic the line should be and the second % defines the error bar. % % Inputs (optional, param/value pairs) % 'lineProps' - ['-k' by default] defines the properties of % the data line. e.g.: % 'or-', or {'-or','markerfacecolor',[1,0.2,0.2]} % 'transparent' - [true by default] if true, the shaded error % bar is made transparent. However, for a transparent % vector image you will need to save as PDF, not EPS, % and set the figure renderer to "painters". An EPS % will only be transparent if you set the renderer % to OpenGL, however this makes a raster image. % 'patchSaturation'- [0.2 by default] The saturation of the patch color. % % % % Outputs % H - a structure of handles to the generated plot objects. % % % Examples: % y=randn(30,80); % x=1:size(y,2); % % 1) % shadedErrorBar(x,mean(y,1),std(y),'lineProps','g'); % % 2) % shadedErrorBar(x,y,{@median,@std},'lineProps',{'r-o','markerfacecolor','r'}); % % 3) % shadedErrorBar([],y,{@median,@(x) std(x)*1.96},'lineProps',{'r-o','markerfacecolor','k'}); % % 4) % Overlay two transparent lines: % clf % y=randn(30,80)*10; % x=(1:size(y,2))-40; % shadedErrorBar(x,y,{@mean,@std},'lineProps','-r','transparent',1); % hold on % y=ones(30,1)*x; y=y+0.06*y.^2+randn(size(y))*10; % shadedErrorBar(x,y,{@mean,@std},'lineProps','-b','transparent',1); % hold off % % % Rob Campbell - November 2009 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Parse input arguments narginchk(3,inf) params = inputParser; params.CaseSensitive = false; params.addParameter('lineProps', '-k', @(x) ischar(x) | iscell(x)); if (sum( size(ver('MATLAB'))) > 0 ) params.addParameter('transparent', true, @(x) islogical(x) || x==0 || x==1); elseif (sum( size(ver('Octave'))) > 0 ) params.addParameter('transparent', false, @(x) islogical(x) || x==0 || x==1); end params.addParameter('patchSaturation', 0.2, @(x) isnumeric(x) && x>=0 && x<=1); params.parse(varargin{:}); %Extract values from the inputParser lineProps = params.Results.lineProps; transparent = params.Results.transparent; patchSaturation = params.Results.patchSaturation; if ~iscell(lineProps), lineProps={lineProps}; end %Process y using function handles if needed to make the error bar dynamically if iscell(errBar) fun1=errBar{1}; fun2=errBar{2}; errBar=fun2(y); y=fun1(y); else y=y(:).'; end if isempty(x) x=1:length(y); elseif sum( size(ver('MATLAB'))) > 0 x=x(:).'; end %Make upper and lower error bars if only one was specified if length(errBar)==length(errBar(:)) errBar=repmat(errBar(:)',2,1); else s=size(errBar); f=find(s==2); if isempty(f), error('errBar has the wrong size'), end if f==2, errBar=errBar'; end end % Check for correct x, errbar formats x_size = size(x); if (length(x) ~= length(errBar) && sum( size(ver('MATLAB'))) > 0 ) error('length(x) must equal length(errBar)') elseif( ( length(x) ~= length(errBar) && checkOctave_datestr(x) == false ) ... && sum( size(ver('Octave'))) > 0 ) error('length(x) must equal length(errBar) or x must have valid datestr') end %Log the hold status so we don't change initialHoldStatus=ishold; if ~initialHoldStatus, hold on, end H = makePlot(x,y,errBar,lineProps,transparent,patchSaturation); if ~initialHoldStatus, hold off, end if nargout==1 varargout{1}=H; end function H = makePlot(x,y,errBar,lineProps,transparent,patchSaturation) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Determine host application if (sum( size(ver('MATLAB'))) > 0 ) hostName = 'MATLAB'; elseif (sum(size(ver('Octave'))) > 0) hostName = 'Octave'; end % if % Plot to get the parameters of the line if hostName == 'MATLAB' H.mainLine=plot(x,y,lineProps{:}); elseif hostName == 'Octave' boolxDatestr = checkOctave_datestr(x); if boolxDatestr x = datenum(x); x = x(:).'; H.mainLine=plot(x,y,lineProps{:}); datetick(gca); else H.mainLine=plot(x,y,lineProps{:}); end end % Tag the line so we can easily access it H.mainLine.Tag = 'shadedErrorBar_mainLine'; % Work out the color of the shaded region and associated lines. % Here we have the option of choosing alpha or a de-saturated % solid colour for the patch surface. mainLineColor=get(H.mainLine,'color'); edgeColor=mainLineColor+(1-mainLineColor)*0.55; if transparent faceAlpha=patchSaturation; patchColor=mainLineColor; else faceAlpha=1; patchColor=mainLineColor+(1-mainLineColor)*(1-patchSaturation); end %Calculate the error bars uE=y+errBar(1,:); lE=y-errBar(2,:); %Make the patch (the shaded error bar) yP=[lE,fliplr(uE)]; xP=[x,fliplr(x)]; %remove nans otherwise patch won't work xP(isnan(yP))=[]; yP(isnan(yP))=[]; if isdatetime(x) && strcmp(hostName,'MATLAB') H.patch=patch(datenum(xP),yP,1); else H.patch=patch(xP,yP,1); end set(H.patch,'facecolor',patchColor, ... 'edgecolor','none', ... 'facealpha',faceAlpha, ... 'HandleVisibility', 'off', ... 'Tag', 'shadedErrorBar_patch') %Make pretty edges around the patch. H.edge(1)=plot(x,lE,'-'); H.edge(2)=plot(x,uE,'-'); set([H.edge], 'color',edgeColor, ... 'HandleVisibility','off', ... 'Tag', 'shadedErrorBar_edge') % Ensure the main line of the plot is above the other plot elements if hostName == 'MATLAB' if strcmp(get(gca,'YAxisLocation'),'left') %Because re-ordering plot elements with yy plot is a disaster uistack(H.mainLine,'top') end elseif hostName == 'Octave' % create the struct from scratch by temp. H = struct('mainLine', H.mainLine, ... 'patch', H.patch, ... 'edge', H.edge); end function boolDate = checkOctave_datestr(x) %% Simple try/catch for casting datenums, requireing valid datestr boolDate = true; try datenum(x) catch boolDate = false; end