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How to make a simple wordcloud with R
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| library(dplyr) | |
| library(tidytext) | |
| library(janeaustenr) | |
| # Using dplyr and janeaustenr, get the contents of 'Sense & Sensibility' | |
| sns<-austen_books() | |
| sns<-sns%>% | |
| filter(book=='Sense & Sensibility') | |
| head(sns) | |
| # tidytext has a function called unnest_tokens to split text into words | |
| # Here we create a new dataframe with a column 'word' made up from the 'text' column in sns | |
| words<-sns%>% | |
| unnest_tokens(word, text) | |
| head(words) | |
| # We can filter out common words (aka "stop words") using a dataframe from tidytext | |
| words<-words%>% | |
| filter(!(word %in% stop_words$word)) | |
| head(words) | |
| # Summarize the number of times each word is used using dplyr | |
| wordFreq<-words%>% | |
| group_by(word)%>% | |
| summarize(count=n()) | |
| # Create the wordcloud (here, we only show the top 100 words) | |
| wordcloud(wordFreq$word, wordFreq$count, max.words=100) |
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