How to display only one legend for a figure with multiple plots?

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Hello everyone,
I have two questions:
1) How can I display one unique legend for a figure with multiple plots?
2) Let assume 5,4,3, 2 and 1 as code for "very high", "High", "Moderate", "Low", and "Very Low" the values of my variable of interest. How can I display these characters strings instead of the value 5,4,3,2, and 1 in the legend?
Any thoughts for a code will be very much appreciated.
Armel

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Camilo Malagon Nieto
I got a better solution that the one with b = get(gca,'Children')
From MatLab Documentation under Legend>Specify Charts to Include in Legend
x = linspace(0,3*pi); y1 = sin(x); p1 = plot(x,y1);
hold on y2 = sin(x - pi/4); p2 = plot(x,y2);
y3 = sin(x - pi/2); p3 = plot(x,y3); hold off
legend([p1 p3],'First','Third')

Raghu S
Raghu S 2018-8-30
Here is the answer: menation these line inside legend command 'orientation','horizontal'
example: legend('orientation','horizontal','name1','name2','name3')
some example:
____________Mutiple legend:_______________
t=0:0.001:1;
sig1=2*sin(2*pi*10*t);
sig2=2*cos(2*pi*10*t);
subplot 212;plot(sig1);hold on;plot(sig2);legend('sin','cos')
subplot 211;plot(sig1);hold on;plot(sig2);legend('sin','cos')
____________Single legend___________________
legend('Location','bestoutside','orientation','horizontal','sin','cos')
One can move anywhere from the figure editor.
Attached one more example.

Angus
Angus 2013-6-10
"legend('string1','string2',...) displays a legend in the current axes using the specified strings to label each set of data." ~ Matlab docs.
This is the simplest way of assigning strings to the legend. The docs show other uses.
When you say you have multiple plots, do you mean multiple axis or just multiple data plots within one axis? If you have multiple axis then you can create a unique legend that specifies what you want by using the second method from the docs:
"legend(h,'string1','string2',...) displays a legend on the plot containing the objects identified by the handles in the vector h and uses the specified strings to label the corresponding graphics object (line, barseries, etc.)."
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Armel
Armel 2013-6-12
编辑:Armel 2013-6-12
In fact, here is a similar image that I would like to produce https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwjZP-sfazLMS3JTVVJUTkdzNEE/edit?usp=sharing 2 (or many) images with only one legend but the images are raster data.
Angus
Angus 2013-6-12
Yes, I saw that before, I'm not sure if raster data changes the method used. I'm not sure how raster data is dealt with in matlab, I dont use it. If you can get it to plot as in my example (convert it to a vector?) then this method should work for you.
Have I answered the original question about legends and multiple plots? Sorry I cant be much help with raster data use.
Cheers, Angus.

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Armel
Armel 2013-6-11
Hi Angus,
Thanks for your reply.
Is there a way to upload a similar figure so you will be able to understand what I mean?
Armel
P.S I'm new to this community
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Angus
Angus 2013-6-11
Hey, I am actually still new here as well. I am not sure if there is a standard method for linking images but I have seen some people upload via other websites like TinyPic.
Cheers, Angus.

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Adam Danz
Adam Danz 2020-9-29
移动:Adam Danz 2022-9-16
Update
Starting in Matlab r2020b, legends can be positioned relative to figure edges and can contain graphics objects from different subplots created by TiledLayout.
Examples:

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