Rendering graphics in R Markdown - r

I have been using R Markdown to reproduce R code and report on some data processing. In terms of plotting, there is a difference between what is output to the RStudio IDE and what is rendered via knitr in html. The follwing is the code that applies to both situations
barplot(top10summariseDamage$totalDamage,
names.arg = c('Hurricane Opal','Heavy Rain/Severe Weather',
'Tornadoes, TSTM Wind, Hail', 'Severe Thunderstorm',
'Wild Fires', 'Hail Storm', 'Major Flood',
'Hurricane Opal/High Winds', 'Winter Storm/High Winds',
'Record Cold'),
ylim = c(0, 5*10^10), las = 2, ylab = 'Dollars Damage ($)',
main = "Economic Damage by Event Type")
The following is a dput of the vector being plotted, where I have added commas to the number for additional clarity
c(31728479000, 2.5e+10, 16000002500, 12053600200, 6.241e+09,
2.41e+09, 1.05e+09, 1000010000, 600005000, 5.6e+08)
Which in RStudio correctly produces the following
As you can see the left most bar is less than 4e10. However, when I use knitr to produce an html report, the following is rendered
As you can see the bar values are literally off the scale, even though I increased the y axis by a factor of 10. Any help appreciated.

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Check out the CRAN manipulate package for more information:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/manipulate/index.html
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