how to display only bottom and left axis lines, but not right and top axis lines?

Matlab plots by default draw 4 lines with tick marks on left, bottom, right and top. I wanted to create 2D plots similar to those in excel, in which only the bottom and left have axis and tick mark, while the line and ticks on right and top are not displaying. I tried set 'Box' to be 'off', but does not seem to work. Any suggestions on how to do this? thank you.

Answer 1

[Jessica Lam]

I hope this example would help you.

http://www.mathworks.com.au/help/techdoc/creating_plots/f1-11215.html

[Jun]

It worked for me. Thank you so much.

Below is my code, which I hope will be helpful for some in the community.

figure,hist(random('Normal',0,1,1,1000),30)

set(gca,'Visible','off')

axes('Position',get(gca,'Position'),...

'XAxisLocation','bottom',...

'YAxisLocation','left',...

'Color','none',...

'XTickLabel',get(gca,'XTickLabel'),...

'YTickLabel',get(gca,'YTickLabel'),...

'XColor','k','YColor','k',...

'LineWidth',2,...

'TickDir','out');

Answer 2

[Andrew Hook]

set(gca,'box','off') works. Note the lower case 'box'.

[Frank Pernett]

Thank you, better answer!

Answer 3

[Jewel Jubic]

Any more examples can you give...