You also have to setup the location of the ticks accordingly.
In the following example I set the range of y axis between 0 and 1 and if I want to display 5 ticks labels I have to specify their location using 'YTick'.
Is similar to use Coordinate-Value pairs.
data = rand(50,2);
tickText = cell(5,1);
for j = 1 : length(tickText)
tickText{j} = ['This is Tick ' num2str(j)];
end
yRange = [0,1];
ticks = yRange(1):diff(yRange)/(length(tickText)-1):yRange(2);
figure;
grid on;
scatter(data(:,1),data(:,2),50,'d','filled')
set(gca,'YTick',ticks,'YTickLabel',tickText)
tickText
ticks
You can invert the order with flip.
figure;
grid on;
scatter(data(:,1),data(:,2),50,'d','filled')
set(gca,'YTick',ticks,'YTickLabel',flip(tickText))
