R Observatory: Metrics for wordcloud version 2.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

wordcloud

2.6Package record

Word Clouds

24packages dependsuggested by 14

363.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ian FellowsCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Functionality to create pretty word clouds, visualize differences and similarity between documents, and avoid over-plotting in scatter plots with text.

Changes in 2.6

updated to make R CMD check happy
Added options for document title colors in comparison.cloud (pull request by Jean-Christophe Bouette)

From NEWS in the release

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("wordcloud", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-wordcloud

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-wordcloud

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-wordcloud

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Ian Fellows <ian@fellstat.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Ian",
                    family = "Fellows",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "ian@fellstat.com")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.6

READMEYes · 43 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 2.6Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

363.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #758 · ~996/day · ~30.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24.2K30 days

64.6K90 days

363.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.8K r2u7.9K conda_forge307 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing wordcloud adds 2 packages (1 with compiled code, 1.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RColorBrewer 11 KB.

Depends (2)

methodsRColorBrewer

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (2)

tm slam

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

24direct

31indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 23

Suggested by 14

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

tidytext HSAUR3 ggwordcloud stm HSAUR2 tidyjson quanteda.textplots genekitr textmineR fdm2id acR maidr PGRdup MetaNLP

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Ian Fellows

Maintainer since 1.1 (2011)

Releases (8)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-08-24 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

added 5 exports
wordcloud, commonality.cloud, comparison.cloud, textplot, wordlayout
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13

Package metadata

First published: 2011-07-23
Total releases: 8 / 15 yrs
License: LGPL-2.1 OSI
Bundled data: 30 KB / 1 file
Download size: 41 KB

Appears in task views

Natural Language Processing

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("wordcloud")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for wordcloud version 2.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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