how can one increase size of plotted area wordclouds in R

Question

trying to replicate the example here;

http://onertipaday.blogspot.com/2011/07/word-cloud-in-r.html

Need help figuring out how to increase the plotted area of the word cloud. Changing the height and width parmeters in png("wordcloud_packages.png", width=1280,height=800) only changes the height and width of the canvas..but the plotted area remains small.

require(XML)
require(tm)
require(wordcloud)
require(RColorBrewer)
u = "http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_date.html"
t = readHTMLTable(u)[[1]]
ap.corpus <- Corpus(DataframeSource(data.frame(as.character(t[,3]))))
ap.corpus <- tm_map(ap.corpus, removePunctuation)
ap.corpus <- tm_map(ap.corpus, tolower)
ap.corpus <- tm_map(ap.corpus, function(x) removeWords(x, stopwords("english")))
ap.tdm <- TermDocumentMatrix(ap.corpus)
ap.m <- as.matrix(ap.tdm)
ap.v <- sort(rowSums(ap.m),decreasing=TRUE)
ap.d <- data.frame(word = names(ap.v),freq=ap.v)
table(ap.d$freq)
pal2 <- brewer.pal(8,"Dark2")
png("wordcloud_packages.png", width=1280,height=800)
wordcloud(ap.d$word,ap.d$freq, scale=c(8,.2),min.freq=3,
max.words=Inf, random.order=FALSE, rot.per=.15, colors=pal2)
dev.off()

Answer 1

Try using the res parameter, instead:

...
png("wordcloud_packages.png", width=12,height=8, units='in', res=300)
...

Answer 2

If you include par(mar = rep(0, 4)) as a separate line immediately after the call to png you'll remove the margins, and the wordcloud will use all the available space. With this, and possibly tweaking the res parameter as suggested in the previous answer, you should get what you wanted.