Holoviews: Document xticks and yticks plot options

[Forander]

Hi,

Is it possible to rename the axes tick labels such as in Bokeh? Ex: p.xaxis.major_label_overrides = {0: "zero", 5: "five", 10: "ten"} would replace given x axis integer tick labels with strings.

I could not find anything in the documentation. Thanks,
Derek

[jlstevens]

If I remember right, you can use a similar format for the xticks plot option, but it might be a list of tuples to keep the order. One example of using xticks (without custom labels) can be found on this page.

[philippjfr]

This should be documented here (but isn't). The appropriate syntax is:

hv.Curve(range(11)).options(xticks=[(0, 'zero'), (5, 'five'), (10, 'ten')])

i.e. a list of tuples.

[ea42gh]

There is at least one exception to this:
the matplotlib backend with projection=polar does not conform.

[Forander]

Follow up question @philippjfr : are xticks controls compatible with Bars?

hv.Bars(range(10)).options(xticks=[(0, 'zero'), (5, 'five'), (8, 'eight')])

Gives me:
"Javascript error adding output!
TypeError: a.mids is undefined
See your browser Javascript console for more details."

[philippjfr]

@Forander This is something I've been meaning to bring up with bokeh, currently custom ticking does not seem to work with categorical axes (which is what bars uses).

[philippjfr]

This is documented here: http://holoviews.org/user_guide/Customizing_Plots.html#Axis-ticks