plotSetYLabel ============================================== Purpose ---------------- Controls the settings for the y-axis label on a graph. Format ---------------- .. function:: plotSetYLabel(&myPlot, label[, font[, fontSize[, fontColor]]]) :param &myPlot: A :class:`plotControl` structure pointer. :type &myPlot: struct pointer :param label: the new label or labels. If you are using more than one y-axis, the first element of the 2x1 label string array will set the label for the left y-axis and the second element will set the label for the right y-axis. This may contain HTML for the creation of Greek letters, mathematical symbols and text formatting. :type label: String or 2x1 string array :type label: string :param font: Optional argument, font or font family name. :type font: string :param fontSize: Optional argument, font size in points. :type fontSize: scalar :param fontColor: Optional argument, named color or RGB value. :type fontColor: string Examples ---------------- Example 1: Basic usage ++++++++++++++++++++++ :: // Declare plotControl structure struct plotControl myPlot; // Initialize plotControl structure myPlot = plotGetDefaults("hist"); // Set the y-axis label, label font, font size and color plotSetYLabel(&myPlot, "Time (sec)", "verdana", 10, "black"); // Create data x = rndn(1e5, 1); // Plot a histogram of the x data spread over 50 bins plotHist(myPlot, x, 50); Example 2: Setting both Y-axes ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ :: // Create with different Y-ranges x = seqa(1, 1, 5); y = { 98 1.5, 92 0.9, 97 1.3, 94 2.1, 95 2.4 }; // Declare plotControl structure struct plotControl myPlot; // Initialize plotControl structure myPlot = plotGetDefaults("xy"); // Set the first curve to use the left y-axis and the second curve to use the right plotSetWhichYAxis(&myPlot, "left" $| "right"); // Set the left and right y-axis labels plotSetYLabel(&myPlot, "Number of subjects"$|"Percent classified"); // Plot the data plotXY(myPlot, x, y); Example 3: HTML +++++++++++++++ You may add Greek letters, mathematical symbols, subscript and superscript to your axis labels using HTML. To add HTML to a label, you need to wrap the text to be interpreted as HTML in HTML tags. :: label_string = "β"; plotSetYLabel(&myPlot, label_string); The code above will add the letter :math:`\beta` to the y-axis label. The HTML ``'sup'`` tag will create superscript and the ``'sub'`` tag will create subscript. For example: :: label_string = "σ2"; plotSetYLabel(&myPlot, label_string); will add :math:`\sigma^2` to your y-axis label. While, :: label_string = "Yt-1"; plotSetYLabel(&myPlot, label_string); will create :math:`Y_{t-1}` Example 4: Latex ++++++++++++++++ You can use Latex to add equations to axis labels. Note that double-backslashes must be used as shown below. :: // Tell GAUSS to interpret the axis label text as Latex plotSetTextInterpreter(&myPlot, "Latex", "axes"); // Add Latex axis label. plotSetYLabel(&myPlot, "\\sqrt{\\lambda}"); The code above will add :math:`\sqrt{\lambda}` to your y-axis label. Remarks ------- .. include:: include/plotattrremark.rst .. include:: include/plotsetactiveyremark.rst .. seealso:: Functions :func:`plotSetActiveX`, :func:`plotSetXLabel`, :func:`plotSetXTicInterval`, :func:`plotSetXTicLabel`, :func:`plotSetZLabel`, :func:`plotSetLinePen`, :func:`plotSetGridPen`