Matlab Basics: Histograms 

Hi dello, I would suggest looking at the documentation for histogram: www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.graphics.chart.primitive.histogram.html What you want to do is plot Categorical data. The right way to do this is shown in an example ("Plot Categorical Histogram"), where you provide the data as a categorical. In your case, each letter would be a different category. I think you can basically just convert the text corpus letter by letter to categorical and it will do the rest for you :)

The most common way to see this error is if you close the figure window which had the histogram in it. If you keep it open while you adjust the bin count it should just dynamically update the figure. Let me know if it still doesn't work, and thanks for asking :)

@@CodingLikeMad Is there any way to then plot the log of the histogram? I read in various places that the only way to do this would be to use the hist function, but I saw that that function is being decommissioned. Nevermind, I got it... set(gca, 'Yscale', 'log')

Correct, I was just about to reply! You can set it back with set(gca, 'Yscale', 'linear'), and also use the normal yticks and ylabels to make the spacing to be powers of 10.

@@CodingLikeMad Hopefully this is the last question, but is there a way to save the log data? even after the graph has been closed, so that I can send the log transformed histogram, data, into a function?

I don't know of a perfect way to do what you want, but it depends on exactly what you mean. So you can save the bin values (which will not be in log space), and then use a log10() on them to move them to log space if you want (or just save the values and do what you want with them). This won't save the histogram itself, but you can get the bin values and their positions which let you do most things you might want. Now it IS possible to save a histogram and restore it, but I don't think you want to do this. It took me some work to figure out, but if you save the FIGURE the histogram is plotted in, and then reload the figure, you can get the original histogram from the Children variable inside the figure. But this is really not the right way to do this. I'm pretty sure you can do everything you want from the bin values.

Images are basically arrays, so you do it the same way you would any array. You just need to figure out how you want to deal with the 3 color channels.