On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:00:13 +0200 G. Draisma wrote: GD> barchart(VADeaths,horizontal=F, GD> key=simpleKey(colnames(VADeaths),points=F,rectangles=T)) GD> does not give what I need, Works for me. Do you have the current R (2.6.2) and lattice? btw. it also works with barchart(VADeaths, horizontal=F,auto.key=T) Stefan