# X-axis labels for histograms and violins
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/x-axis-labels-for-histograms-and-violins/24160
**Category:** Visualization
**Created:** [May 13, 2019, 4:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/x-axis-labels-for-histograms-and-violins/24160 "2019-05-13T04:35:49Z")
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### Author:  [@rakeshvar](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rakeshvar)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2019, 4:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/x-axis-labels-for-histograms-and-violins/24160/1 "2019-05-13T04:35:49Z")
I have three classes that I want to visualize as a violin plot. I have data as an array or arrays. And names as an array of strings. I want the names to be shown on the x-axis.
```julia
using StatPlots
gr()
x = [rand(9) for i in 1:3]
lbls = [randstring(2) for i in 1:3]
violin(lbls, x)
```
This does not seem to work.
```julia
violin(x, labels=lbls)
```
This puts the labels in a legend, but I want it to be along the x-axis. How do I do this without invoking DataFrames, or even with invoking them, but I have many more than three classes of data. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@rakeshvar](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rakeshvar)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2019, 4:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/x-axis-labels-for-histograms-and-violins/24160/2 "2019-05-13T04:41:09Z")
Figured it out. The labels need to be a row vector! However
```julia
lbls = [randstring(2) for i in 1:3]'
```
does not work in 0.6 😬
But that does not relate to plots.
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### Author:  [@mkborregaard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkborregaard)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2019, 5:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/x-axis-labels-for-histograms-and-violins/24160/3 "2019-05-13T05:54:58Z")
Yes - people felt that transposing should be disallowed for non-numeric matrices. You can use `permutedims` instead.