Is it possible to delete "subplots"?

For example I have a figure and five plots on it. I would like to start a new figure with the same plots, except the last one. Is it possible to recall the previous ones?

Answer 1

[Thomas Koelen]

Yes it is:

 figure
 hold on

 h1=subplot(1,2,1)
 plot(1:10,'r');

 h2=subplot(1,2,2)
 plot(2:11,'g');

 pause(2)

 delete(h2)

however, you'll still see the empty space where the subplot was before.

[Thomas Koelen]

Did you figure out how to make your markers transparant by the way? You asked the question yesterday, I answered but you didn't respond!

Answer 2

[Michael Haderlein]

If you haven't already saved the handles when creating the axes, you can first get the handles with

haxes=get(gcf,'children');

and then recreate them with

haxes_new=copyobj(haxes(2:end),figure);

Of course, the position of the axes remains this way. Alternatively, you could only copy the plots with (haxes as before):

 figure
 for cnt=1:4
  hplots=get(haxes(end-cnt+1),'children');
  copyobj(hplots, subplot(2,2,cnt));
 end

And the axes will be aligned as usual.

[Michael Haderlein]

Mr. M has written: "No, I am not using subplots (sorry for the ""), just plots on each other! So I would like to keep for example some shapes or functions on the plot. Or I would like to keep some settings, for example axis, titles, legends, etc. But not all."

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My response:

Ok, no subplots here. I would copy the axes with copyobj:

 ha_new=copyobj(gca,figure);

Then get the handles of the children with

 hc=get(ha_new,'children');

and finally delete some of the children (less cruel than it sounds):

 delete(hc(1:4))

deletes the 4 children which have been added latest. You could also specify certain properties of lines to delete:

 delete(hc(cellfun(@(c) isequal(c,[0 0 1]),get(hc,'color'))))

deletes all blue lines.

Answer 3

[Omer Ferhat]

You can delete subplots with

 delete(subplot(X,Y,P))

Answer 4

[Mr M.]

No, I am not using subplots (sorry for the ""), just plots on each other! So I would like to keep for example some shapes or functions on the plot. Or I would like to keep some settings, for example axis, titles, legends, etc. But not all.

Answer 5

[Thomas Koelen]

X=1:10;
Y=X.^2;
Z=X.^3;

figure
hold on
p1=plot(X,Y);
p2=plot(X,Z);

pause(2)

delete(p2)

[Mr M.]

thanks And what about settings? Is it possible to keep some settings?