Hello, I have several Barplots I want to plot. I also want to include a legend. Since my Barplots are very different I ve dicided to put the legend in the top left corner. Unfortunately, sometimes there is a part of a bar just below the legend. This makes it difficult to see the legend itself or the barplot. All I found out so far, is to make the backgroundcolor of the legend white or so, but I would couldn t see the bar anymore. Is there a way, to position the legend "excel-like" on the outside the plot on the side? or Is there a possibility to use sort of an alpha-factor to make the background white but slightly invisible so that there is a contrast? I hope you can help me out and thank you in advance! #Example: barplot(VADeaths) legend("topleft", c("1xxxxx", "2xxxxx", "3xxxxx", "4xxxxx", "5xxxxx"), bg="white")) Markus Schweitzer - http://www.pokertips.tk