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theo_vent
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Issue - WordCloud with R

Hi everyone,

 

I'm trying to get a WordCloud appear on Power BI with an R-script. The script works fine with R, but when I plug it into Power BI and have my data already entered (import .csv file), I get this error message:

 

Error in strwidth(words[i], cex = size[i], ... : value 'cex' incorrect

Calls: wordcloud -> strwidth

 

The WordCloud works fine when I import my data with the R scrpit (text <- readLines(file.choose())) but not when I import my data before running R in Power BI.

 

Here is my script:

 

library("NLP")
library("methods")
library("tm") # main package for text mining
library("SnowballC") # package for stemming
library("RColorBrewer")
library("wordcloud") # package for WordCloud
library("proto")
library("gsubfn")
library("reshape2")
library("ngram")
library("tau")

 

text <- readLines(dataset)

## SEARCH FILE IN DOCUMENTS: ##
## text <- readLines(file.choose())


myCorpus <- Corpus(VectorSource(text))

myCorpus <- tm_map(myCorpus, tolower)
myCorpus <- tm_map(myCorpus, removePunctuation)
myCorpus <- tm_map(myCorpus, removeNumbers)
myCorpus <- tm_map(myCorpus, removeWords, stopwords("english"))

 

bigrams = textcnt(myCorpus, n = 2, method = "string")

bigrams = bigrams[order(bigrams, decreasing = TRUE)]

myDTM = TermDocumentMatrix(myCorpus, control = list(minWordLength = 1))

 

m = as.matrix(myDTM)

v = bigrams

d <- data.frame(word = names(v),freq=v)

 

set.seed(1234)
wordcloud(words = d$word, freq = d$freq, min.freq = 5,
          max.words=2000, random.order=FALSE, strwidth=50, strheight=0.5, rot.per=0.35,
          colors=brewer.pal(8, "Dark2"))

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong ?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Theo

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v-chuncz-msft
Community Support
Community Support

@theo_vent,

 

You may check the data frame d first. Besides, take a look at custom visual Word Cloud.

Community Support Team _ Sam Zha
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