<p>I'm using polar plots (POLAR(THETA,RHO)) in MATLAB.</p>

<p>Is there an easy way to fix the range for the radial axis to say, 1.5?</p>

<p>I'm looking for something analogous to the xlim, ylim commands for cartesian axes. Haven't found anything in the docs yet.</p>

Here's how I was able to do it.
The MATLAB polar plot (if you look at the Handle Graphics options available) does not have anything like xlim or ylim.  However, I realized that the first thing plotted sets the range, so I was able to plot a function with radius range [-.5 .5] on a [-1 1] plot as follows:
```
```
theta  = linspace(0,2*pi,100);
r      = sin(2*theta) .* cos(2*theta);
r_max  = 1;
h_fake = polar(theta,r_max*ones(size(theta)));
hold on;
h      = polar(theta, r);
set(h_fake, 'Visible', 'Off');
```
```
That doesn't look very good and hopefully there's a better way to do it, but it works.