labelnode

Label graph nodes

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Syntax

  • labelnode(H,nodeIDs,Labels)
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Description

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labelnode(H,nodeIDs,Labels) labels the nodes specified by nodeIDs with the character vectors contained in Labels. The lengths of nodeIDs and Labels must be equal, or Labels can be scalar.

Examples

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Open Script

Create and plot a graph.

s = [1 1 2 2 3 4 5 5];
t = [2 3 3 4 4 5 1 2];
G = digraph(s,t);
h = plot(G);

The plot function automatically labels the graph nodes with their node indices (or with their node names, if available). Use text labels for some of the graph nodes instead.

labelnode(h,[1 2],{'source' 'target'})

Label node 3 and node 4 as 'A'. Since the node labels do not change the underlying graph, G, the labels can contain duplicate names (the official node names in G must always be unique).

labelnode(h,[3 4],'A')

Input Arguments

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Input graph plot, specified as a GraphPlot object. Use the graph or digraph functions to create a graph, and then use plot with an output argument to return a GraphPlot object.

For more information, see GraphPlot.

Example: H = plot(G)

Nodes to label, specified as a vector of node indices, a node name, or a cell array of character vectors containing node names.

Node labels, specified as a character vector or a cell array of character vectors.

  • If Labels is a character vector, then labelnode uses that label for each node specified by nodeIDs.

  • If Labels is a cell array, then it must contain a label for each node specified by nodeIDs.

Data Types: char | cell

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Introduced in R2015b

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