How to increase font size in a plot in R?

Question

I am confused. What is the right way to increase font size of text in the title, labels and other places of a plot?

For example

x <- rnorm(100)
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Answer 1

Thus, to summarise the existing discussion, adding

cex.lab=1.5, cex.axis=1.5, cex.main=1.5, cex.sub=1.5

to your plot, where 1.5 could be 2, 3, etc. and a value of 1 is the default will increase the font size.

x <- rnorm(100)

cex doesn't change things

hist(x, xlim=range(x),
     xlab= "Variable Lable", ylab="density", main="Title of plot", prob=TRUE)

hist(x, xlim=range(x),
     xlab= "Variable Lable", ylab="density", main="Title of plot", prob=TRUE, 
     cex=1.5)

Add cex.lab=1.5, cex.axis=1.5, cex.main=1.5, cex.sub=1.5

hist(x, xlim=range(x),
     xlab= "Variable Lable", ylab="density", main="Title of plot", prob=TRUE, 
     cex.lab=1.5, cex.axis=1.5, cex.main=1.5, cex.sub=1.5)