Is it possible to set the size of the gap between grouped bars in a bar graph?

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Heidi Hirsh 2020-6-30

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I know you can set the width of each bar (I set mine near max) but I am curious if I can minimize the white space by decreasing the x distance between each pair (group) of bars.

This is what I am plotting:

coh = [0.9862, 0.9773

0.971, 0.9544

0.8969, 0.6791

0.8835, 0.9051

0.8558, 0.6727

0.6727, 0.8641];

figure

hB=bar(coh,.95);

Thank you!

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the cyclist 2020-6-30

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Another option would be to abandon using grouped bars in a single call to bar(), and instead plot the two sets of bars with two different calls to bar(), and specifying the x locations of those bars.

figure
hold on
w = 0.4;
bar((1:6)-w/2,coh(:,1),w)
bar((1:6)+w/2,coh(:,2),w)

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Heidi Hirsh 2020-6-30

I really like this solution for minimizing the gaps between paired bars. Thank you! BUT now I'm not sure how to plot my error bars correctly. I tried splitting up the line that identifies the x location for the error bars but for some reason it doesn't work.

I tried this:

hb1=bar((1:6)-w/2,coh(:,1),w )

hb2=bar((1:6)+w/2,coh(:,2),w )

X1 = cell2mat(get(hb1,'XData')).' + [hb1.XOffset];

X2 = cell2mat(get(hb2,'XData')).' + [hb1.XOffset];

I was hoping I could plot the error bars in two lines like you did the bars. But the lines defining X1 and X2 don't work :(

Heidi Hirsh 2020-6-30

Actually I realized you (@the cyclist) already solved my problem. This works:

f=figure('units', 'inches', 'position', [0 0 3.5 2.5]) %left, bottom, width, height

% f1=figure(1)

box on

hold on

w = 0.4;

hb1=bar((1:6)-w/2,coh(:,1),w )

hb2=bar((1:6)+w/2,coh(:,2),w )

xlim([.4 6.6])

X1=(1:6)-w/2

X2=(1:6)+w/2

hEB1=errorbar(X1,coh(:,1),errlow(:,1),errhigh(:,1),'.','markersize',0.05,'linewidth',.5,'capsize',0.05);

hEB2=errorbar(X2,coh(:,2),errlow(:,2),errhigh(:,2),'.','markersize',0.05,'linewidth',.5,'capsize',0.05);

set(hEB1,'Color','k')

set(hEB2,'Color','k')

ylabel('Coherence')

set(gca,'fontsize',12)

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the cyclist 2020-6-30

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This question and the answer from MATLAB staff suggest that it is not possible using the built-in bar function.

However, there is another answer from someone who contributed the barmod function to the File Exchange, claiming to solve this problem. It's quite new, and I have not tried it, but it might be worth a shot.

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Heidi Hirsh 2020-6-30

Thank you for the ideas! I'm super disappointed that it seems impossible to adjust the offset in the built-in bar function. And I don't think I can use barmod because I ultimately need to include error bars on each bar and it looks like barmod does not allow that. This is my complete code (I simplified it above thinking this might be a simpler fix):

coh = [0.9862, 0.9773

0.971, 0.9544

0.8969, 0.6791

0.8835, 0.9051

0.8558, 0.6727

0.6727, 0.8641];

errhigh = [0.0083, 0.0137

0.0137, 0.0274

0.0611, 0.1797

0.0688, 0.0563

0.1426, 0.1829

0.0875, 0.0799];

errlow = [0.0208, 0.034

0.043, 0.0661

0.1382, 0.3105

0.1533, 0.1288

0.1827, 0.3135

0.1879, 0.1743];

f=figure('units', 'inches', 'position', [0 0 3.5 2.5])

box on

hB=bar(coh,.95);

hold on

X=cell2mat(get(hB,'XData')).' + [hB.XOffset]; %find x locations for error bars

hEB=errorbar(X,coh,errlow,errhigh,'.','markersize',0.05,'linewidth',.5,'capsize',0.05);

set(hEB,'Color','k')

ylabel('Coherence')

set(gca,'fontsize',12)

Disclaimer: This figure will plot TINY. I'm trying to make it to fit a two column 8.5x11 page (in one column).

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