Re: [R] graphically representing frequency of words in a speech?

representing frequency of words in a speech? Hi, As Gregor Gorjanc mentioned, it's very inconvenient to let R decide the fontsize and placement of words in a plot. There have already been very mature applications of tag cloud; one of them I'm relatively familiar is the WordPress plugin &

Re: [R] graphically representing frequency of words in a speech?

There is a similar discussion in statalist (http://n2.nabble.com/st%3A-Tag-clouds-in-Stata--tt2992551.html#none), I think they make a reasonable argument that tag cloud is not a good statistical graphic. 2009/6/10 Yihui Xie : > Hi, > > As Gregor Gorjanc mentioned, it's very inconvenient to let R

Re: [R] graphically representing frequency of words in a speech?

Hi, As Gregor Gorjanc mentioned, it's very inconvenient to let R decide the fontsize and placement of words in a plot. There have already been very mature applications of tag cloud; one of them I'm relatively familiar is the WordPress plugin "wp-cumulus", which makes use of a Flash object to gener

Re: [R] graphically representing frequency of words in a speech?

Below are various attempts using using ggplot2 (http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/). First I try random positioning, then random positioning with alpha, then a quasi-random position scheme in polar coordinates: #this demo has random number generation # so best to set a seed to make it # reproducible. set.s

Re: [R] graphically representing frequency of words in a speech?

help Subject: RE: [R] graphically representing frequency of words in a speech? > The only thing that I found for R is by Gregor Gorjanc, but the > information seems to be dated: > >http://www.bfro.uni-lj.si/MR/ggorjan/software/R/index.html#tagCloud Hi, Yes, I have tried to create

Re: [R] graphically representing frequency of words in a speech?

> The only thing that I found for R is by Gregor Gorjanc, but the > information seems to be dated: > >http://www.bfro.uni-lj.si/MR/ggorjan/software/R/index.html#tagCloud Hi, Yes, I have tried to create a tag cloud plot in R, but I abandoned the project due to other things. The main obstacle w

Re: [R] graphically representing frequency of words in a speech?

On Jun 7, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Brown, Tony Nicholas wrote: Dear all, I recently saw a graph on television that displayed selected words/phrases in a speech scaled in size according to their frequency. So words/phrases that were often used appeared large and words that were rarely used appeared

[R] graphically representing frequency of words in a speech?

Dear all, I recently saw a graph on television that displayed selected words/phrases in a speech scaled in size according to their frequency. So words/phrases that were often used appeared large and words that were rarely used appeared small. The closest thing I can find on the web to approxima