Categorical bar graph labels don't work on Matlab

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I tried this code to get a categorical label on the bottom of my bar graph:

c = categorical({'apples','oranges','pears'});
prices = [1.23 0.99 2.3];
bar(c,prices)

In the MATLAB documentation, this claims to have the bottom of the axis labelled with the categories in c. Instead I only see 1, 2, 3 along the bottom. Is something wrong with my setup?

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Possible duplicate of How to show categorical data on x-axis when using bar function? – Sardar Usama
@SardarUsama true, it is. Thanks for showing this. Still, that post doesn't have a good explanation of why the function isn't working as shown in MATLAB's documentation; rather it has a workaround suggestion instead. Any ideas on why it doesn't work this way? – teepee
Read the documentation of the version that you actually have. Not sure about R2016b, but what you're trying to do wasn't introduced till R2016a. – Sardar Usama
I am actually using R2016b, so I'm not sure why it won't work. – teepee
Do you see that code in the documentation of R2016b? – Sardar Usama

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This functionality was only introduced in Matlab 2017a. As you can see here it is absent from 2016b docs:

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