You can plot multiple vectors by either:
- passing them into plot as a matrix, plot will make a line for each column of the matrix if you don't specify x values. If you do specify x values plot will match up the appropriate dimension of the matrix.
- calling plot multiple times, making sure to specify hold on some time before the second call
You can specify the color explicitly for each line, or let MATLAB select from the current color order. You can change the colors in that list using the colororder function, and you can change the mapping of each color to its index into the color order using the SeriesIndex property.
Example data as you described it
y1=randn(8760,1);
y2=randn(8760,1)+5;
y3=randn(8760,1)+10;
y4=randn(8760,1)+15;
Plot of the four variables:
plot([y1 y2 y3 y4])
You mentioned the sum:
hold on
thesum = sum([y1 y2 y3 y4],2);
plot(thesum)
A legend to show what the colors refer to
legend(["y1" "y2" "y3" "y4" "sum"])
Alternate, use hold on:
figure
plot(y1)
hold on
plot(y2)
plot(y3)
plot(y4)
Change the colors using colororder:
figure
plot([y1 y2 y3 y4])
colororder([1 0 0; 0 1 0; 0 0 1; 0 1 1])
Specify the colors explicitly for each line:
figure
plot(y1,'black')
hold on
plot(y2,'red')
plot(y3,'blue')
plot(y4,'green')
