Holding off displaying figure window in Matlab

Question

The following piece of code is from the great book "An Introduction to Programming and Numerical Methods in MATLAB" by S.R. Otto and J.P. Denier

x = 0:pi/20:pi;

n = length(x);

r = 1:n/7:n;

y = x.ˆ2+3;

plot(x,y,’b’,x(r),y(r),’r*’)

...

Code continues from here specifying x axis and y axis labels and so on. When I start to write the code in command window, as soon as I put the last round bracket for plot command, Matlab returns figure window with the plot, without me having a chance to insert x and y axis labels and so on. How do I get the plot with everything complete?

Answer 1

Matlab's documentation for the plot function contains the following code example:

figure
plot(x,y,'Color',[0,0.7,0.9])

title('2-D Line Plot')
xlabel('x')
ylabel('cos(5x)')

I believe this is the standard way to do it in Matlab --- axis labels, title, etc. are added with additional commands after calling the plot function.