R: wordcloud
The 5 main steps to create word clouds in R
- Create a text file
- Install and load the required packages
- Text mining
- Build a term-document matrix
- Generate the Word cloud
Install Packages
# Install install.packages("tm") # for text mining install.packages("SnowballC") # for text stemming install.packages("wordcloud") # word-cloud generator install.packages("RColorBrewer") # color palettes # Load library("tm") library("SnowballC") library("wordcloud") library("RColorBrewer")
Text Mining
# dari file text <- readLines(file.choose()) text <- read.delim("out.txt")
# Read the text file from internet filePath <- "http://www.sthda.com/sthda/RDoc/example-files/martin-luther-king-i-have-a-dream-speech.txt" text <- readLines(filePath)
# Load the data as a corpus docs <- Corpus(VectorSource(text)) inspect(docs)
Clean up
# Convert the text to lower case docs <- tm_map(docs, content_transformer(tolower)) # Remove numbers docs <- tm_map(docs, removeNumbers) # Remove english common stopwords docs <- tm_map(docs, removeWords, stopwords("english")) # Remove your own stop word # specify your stopwords as a character vector docs <- tm_map(docs, removeWords, c("blabla1", "blabla2")) # Remove punctuations docs <- tm_map(docs, removePunctuation) # Eliminate extra white spaces docs <- tm_map(docs, stripWhitespace) # Text stemming # docs <- tm_map(docs, stemDocument)
Term Document Matrix
dtm <- TermDocumentMatrix(docs) m <- as.matrix(dtm) v <- sort(rowSums(m),decreasing=TRUE) d <- data.frame(word = names(v),freq=v) head(d, 10)
Wordcloud
set.seed(1234) wordcloud(words = d$word, freq = d$freq, min.freq = 1, max.words=200, random.order=FALSE, rot.per=0.35, colors=brewer.pal(8, "Dark2"))