How can I plot a one-bar stacked bar chart in MATLAB?

Question

If I do a

bar([1 2 3 4 5;2 3 4 5 1], 'stacked')

I get two bars of stacked values corresponding to the two rows of my data - as I expected:

I would like to be able to similarly plot a stacked bar chart with only one bar, but if I try like this

bar([1 2 3 4 5], 'stacked')

I simply get five individual bars instead - no stacking:

So how can I produce a one-bar stacked bar chart?

Answer 1

(This solution requires MATLAB 2019b)

Quoting the documentation:

bar(y) creates a bar graph with one bar for each element in y. If y is an m-by-n matrix, then bar creates m groups of n bars.

bar(x,y) draws the bars at the locations specified by x.

Using the first syntax, each element of a vector will become it's own bar. Using the second syntax, x defines how to understand a vector. In your case, you want a single stacked group:

bar(1,[1 2 3 4 5], 'stacked')

For comparison, with Y=rand(1,5):