Plotting only the year of a column vector with full date

I have a column vector with the dates in the format "MM/dd/yyyy." I would like to plot this against another vector, but only using the year part of the date. How can I extract the yyyy part and assign it to a new vector variable to be able to plot it?

[Rik]

Do you have tyhe dates as a datetime vector, as a string vector, or as a cell vector of chars? And what did you try already?

[Naweed Niaz]

its currently imported as a datetime vector, and I haven't tried anything because I am unsure of how to do this.

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

Use xtickformat or datetick

Demo:

 dt = datetime(1999,01,01) + days(1:100:5000); 
 y = rand(size(dt)); 
 ax = gca(); 
 plot(dt,y)
 xtickformat(ax, 'yyyy') 

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 % or
 datetick(ax, 'x', 'yyyy', 'keeplimits')

[Peter Perkins]

Don't use datetick in a datetime plot. xtickformat is the way to go.