ggwordcloud

0.6.2

A Word Cloud Geom for 'ggplot2'

14packages depend

82.5Kdownloads / year

94.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Erwan Le PennecFirst published 2018-09-308 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a word cloud text geom for 'ggplot2'. Texts are placed so that they do not overlap as in 'ggrepel'. The algorithm used is a variation around the one of 'wordcloud2.js'.

Install

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

install.packages("ggwordcloud", 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("lepennec/ggwordcloud")

Development version from lepennec/ggwordcloud. 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-ggwordcloud

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

# 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-ggwordcloud

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 9.2 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Repository

GitHub ↗ lepennec/ggwordcloud

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178Commits

3Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 178 commits · Last activity 2026-02-15 · 0% stars, 30d

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0ggplot2

Imports (6)

gridgridtext Rcpp scales colorspace png

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (9)

testthat knitr rmarkdown ggrepel wordcloud wordcloud2 covr dplyr tidyr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

14direct

3indirect

SOMbrero TextMiningGUI WhatsR akc moodleR rainette tall topics wpa iemisctext meetupr plotthis text vivainsights

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Erwan Le Pennec

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Erwan Le Pennec

Author, Maintainer

Kamil Slowikowski

Author

Package Timeline

8 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.6.2Latest
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.6.1
2023-10-26 · diff ↗
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2023-10-18 · diff ↗
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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
0.5.0
2019-06-02 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2019-04-28 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.0
2018-10-24 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2018-10-07 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2018-09-30

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-09-30
Total releases: 8 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 1.7 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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