Dear All, Please consider the short code at the end of the email. It generates a barchart where everything is as I want, apart from some minor tuning of the legend. I can control the spacing between the text in the two rows of the legend, but how do I force some separation between the red and the blue rectangles in the legend? Any suggestion is welcome. Cheers Lorenzo ############################################### library(lattice) library(latticeExtra) df_tot<-structure(list(country = structure(c(13L, 1L, 3L, 21L, 12L, 6L, 22L, 14L, 19L, 20L, 4L, 16L, 9L, 11L, 18L, 17L, 7L, 8L, 2L, 15L, 10L, 5L, 13L, 1L, 23L, 21L, 12L, 6L, 22L, 14L, 19L, 20L, 4L, 16L, 9L, 11L, 24L, 18L, 25L, 28L, 26L, 17L, 7L, 8L, 2L, 27L, 15L, 10L), .Label = c("BE", "PT", "CZ", "EL", "TR", "EE", "NO", "PL", "IE", "SI", "IL", "DK", "AT", "FI", "SE", "HU", "NL", "IT", "FR", "UK", "DE", "ES", "CY", "IS", "LT", "MT", "RS", "LV"), class "factor"), number = c(12L, 1L, 2L, 42L, 11L, 4L, 78L, 12L, 35L, 41L, 2L, 21L, 8L, 9L, 25L, 24L, 4L, 4L, 1L, 12L, 8L, 3L, 5L, 1L, 1L, 32L, 16L, 3L, 75L, 20L, 16L, 29L, 3L, 9L, 10L, 5L, 1L, 33L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 6L, 7L, 2L, 3L, 1L, 11L, 3L), year c(2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2015, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016, 2016)), .Names c("country", "number", "year"), row.names c(NA, -48L), class = "data.frame") p1 <- barchart(number ~ country , groups= as.factor(year), data = df_tot## , , origin=0, spect="fill", par.settings = c(ggplot2like(col=c("blue", "red"))), axis = axis.grid, xlab=list("Number of Beneficiaries", cex=1.2), ylab=list("Country", cex=1.2),## main=NULL, main=list(NULL),between list(x = 1), scales=list(cex=1), auto.key list(title = "Year", columns=1,space="right",padding.text=3) ) pdf("beneficiaries_all2.pdf", width=15, height=5) print(p1) dev.off()