R help - Oct 2014 - Box Plot size and labels

Hello,

I'm doing some box plots in Rmarkdown to MS Word file.  When they come into
the word file they are not quite wide enough for labels for the different
boxes.  Is there a way for me to set the size the box plot would be so I
can make it wider?

Or reduce the font size so they can all fit on the graph??

My data and code are below

Thank you for your time.
David Doyle

MS <- read.table("http://www.doylesdartden.com/R/MS.csv",
header=TRUE,
sep=",",)

#Sets whic are detections and nondetects
MS$Detections <- ifelse(MS$D_AMMONIA==1, "Detected",
"NonDetect")

MSAmmoniax <- c("Well", "AMMONIA")
MSAmmonia <- MS[MSAmmoniax]

plot(MSAmmonia, notch=TRUE, ylab = "Ammonia (mg/L)", cex = 0.1,
col=(c("green","white")))
legend("topleft", inset=.002, title="Gradient",
       c("Up","Down"), fill=terrain.colors(2), horiz=TRUE,
cex = 0.7,)
title(main="Lower Mudstone Ammonia Box Plots")

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Your code uses the default graphics output device (most likely the windows()
device, guessing from your use of MSWord). The png() device might produce more
consistent results. Since you are using RMarkdown, you may be using knitr which
has chunk options that can be used to control the device used and its graphic
properties.

See

?png
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DCN:<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>        Basics: ##.#.       ##.#.  Live
Go...
                                      Live:   OO#.. Dead: OO#..  Playing
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Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

On October 26, 2014 6:49:48 PM PDT, David Doyle <kydaviddoyle at
gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm doing some box plots in Rmarkdown to MS Word file.  When they come
>into
>the word file they are not quite wide enough for labels for the
>different
>boxes.  Is there a way for me to set the size the box plot would be so
>I
>can make it wider?
>
>Or reduce the font size so they can all fit on the graph??
>
>My data and code are below
>
>Thank you for your time.
>David Doyle
>
>MS <- read.table("http://www.doylesdartden.com/R/MS.csv",
header=TRUE,
>sep=",",)
>
>#Sets whic are detections and nondetects
>MS$Detections <- ifelse(MS$D_AMMONIA==1, "Detected",
"NonDetect")
>
>MSAmmoniax <- c("Well", "AMMONIA")
>MSAmmonia <- MS[MSAmmoniax]
>
>plot(MSAmmonia, notch=TRUE, ylab = "Ammonia (mg/L)", cex = 0.1,
>col=(c("green","white")))
>legend("topleft", inset=.002, title="Gradient",
>       c("Up","Down"), fill=terrain.colors(2),
horiz=TRUE, cex = 0.7,)
>title(main="Lower Mudstone Ammonia Box Plots")
>
>	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
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