R Observatory: Metrics for wordcloud2 version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

wordcloud2

0.2.1

Create Word Cloud by 'htmlwidget'

12packages depend

222.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Dawei LangFirst published 2016-07-252 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A fast visualization tool for creating wordcloud by using 'wordcloud2.js'. 'wordcloud2.js' is a JavaScript library to create wordle presentation on 2D canvas or HTML https://timdream.org/wordcloud2.js/.

Install

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

install.packages("wordcloud2", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("lchiffon/wordcloud2")

Development version from lchiffon/wordcloud2. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-wordcloud2

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-wordcloud2

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-wordcloud2

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-06-09
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
11 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

222.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,005 · ~610/day · ~18.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

9.6K30 days

40.9K90 days

222.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on501 r2u19 autocran1.1K conda_forge54 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ lchiffon/wordcloud2

414Stars

107Forks

44Open issues

5Open PRs

0Releases

73Commits

11Contributors

73 commits · Last activity 2022-02-03 · +0.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 4132026-08-12 · 414

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/lchiffon/wordcloud2 on 2026-08-16.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (4)

htmlwidgets base64encgrDevicesgraphics

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown webshot

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

12direct

0indirect

BioM2 DedooseR TAShiny datamedios hwordcloud DSjobtracker MedLEA bertopicr bibliometrix ggwordcloud inlpubs plot4fun

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (0)

Author records are not tracked yet for this package.

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Dawei Lang

no longer listed · 0.2.0 to 0.2.1

Guan-tin Chien

no longer listed · 0.2.1

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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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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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.1Latest
2018-01-03 · current release · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.2.0
2016-07-25
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-07-25
Total releases: 2 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Bundled data: 18 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.8 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("wordcloud2")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for wordcloud2 version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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