How to put values above bars in barchart in Matlab?

Question

How to put values above bars in barchart in Matlab?

Note, that there can be several bars per position of unknown width, so you can't just do text

y1 = [1; 2; 3; 4; 5];
y2 = [5; 4; 3; 2; 1];
bar([y1, y2]);
text(0.75:1:(length(y1)-0.25), y1, num2str(y1,'%.0f'), 'VerticalAlignment', 'bottom', 'HorizontalAlignment', 'center');
text(1.0:1:(length(y2)+0.0), y2, num2str(y2,'%.0f'), 'VerticalAlignment', 'bottom', 'HorizontalAlignment', 'center');

I can try some position guessing, but would like to avoid it.

Answer 1

You can know the locations of the bars with

b=bar([y1, y2]);

b.XData gives you the location, b.BarWidth its width, b.BarLayout will tell you if there are more than one in the same location (to adjust for width) and so on. Read more about the available properties .

With this information you should be able to just put text wherever you want.