[ncl-talk] Bar plot: Override X axis labels with text labels

[S Br]

Hi Adam,
It worked fine.
Many thanks.

SBR

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 9:12 PM, Adam Phillips <asphilli at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi SBR,
> In order to use tmXBLabels/tmXBValues you need to se tmXBMode =
> "ExplicitLabels". See the coding for the bottom panel of example #2 here:
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/tickmarks.shtml#ex2
> If you have further questions please respond to the ncl-talk email list.
> Adam
>
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 12:49 PM S Br <sbr.climate at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> I am trying to generate a bar plot diagram and would like override the
>> default X-axis labels with the text labels. I am trying 'res at tmXBLabels'
>> but it doesn't work. My code is given below.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> SBR
>>
>> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"
>> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl"
>>
>> begin
>>
>> ;********************************************************
>> ; the data
>> ;********************************************************
>>   x = (/1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12/)
>>   y = (/0.32, 0.29, 0.71, 0.09, 0.02, 0.57, 0.62, 0.85, 0.84, 0.12, 0.29,
>> 0.36/)
>>   labels = (/"A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I","J","K","L"/)
>> ;********************************************************
>> ; create the plot
>> ;********************************************************
>>   wks = gsn_open_wks("png","bar_plot")                  ; send graphics
>> to PNG file
>>   res                       = True                 ; plot mods desired
>>
>> ;  res at gsnFrame              = False                ; don't advance
>> frame yet
>>   res at gsnXYBarChart         = True                 ; turn on bar chart
>>   res at gsnXYBarChartBarWidth = 0.75                 ; change bar widths
>>   res at gsnXYBarChartColors = (/"firebrick","red","orange","green", \
>>   "navy","blue","SkyBlue","SlateBlue","navy","blue","SkyBlue","SlateBlue"/)
>>           ; choose colors
>>
>>   res at tmXBOn                = True                ; turn off tickmarks
>> at bot
>>   res at trYMinF               = 0                    ; bring bars down to
>> zero
>>   res at trXMinF               = 0                    ; adds space on
>> either end
>>   res at trXMaxF               = 13                    ; of the 1st and
>> last bars
>>
>>   res at tmXBLabels          = (/"A","B","C","D","E","F","G",
>> "H","I","J","K","L"/)
>>
>>   res at tiMainString          = "Corelation"
>>   plot = gsn_csm_xy (wks,x, y,res)                  ; create plot
>>
>> end
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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