On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Matt Shotwell <m...@biostatmatt.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 15:36 +0200, heimat los wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am new to R and my question should be trivial. I need to create a word > > cloud from a txt file containing the words and their occurrence number. > For > > that purposes I am using the snippets package [1]. > > As it can be seen at the bottom of the link, first I have to create a > vector > > (is that right that words is a vector?) like bellow. > > > > > words <- c(apple=10, pie=14, orange=5, fruit=4) > > > > My problem is to do the same thing but create the vector from a file > which > > would contain words and their occurence number. I would be very happy if > you > > could give me some hints. > > How is the file formatted? Can you provide a small example? > > The file format is "video tape"=8 "object recognition"=45 "object detection"=23 "vhs tape"=2 But I can change it if needed with bash scripting. Regards > > Moreover, to understand the format of the file to be inserted I write the > > vector words to a file. > > > > > write(words, file="words.txt") > > > > However, the file words.txt contains only the values but not the > > names(apple, pie etc.). > > > > $ cat words.txt > > 10 14 5 4 > > > > It seems that I have to understand more about the data types in R. > > > > Thanks. > > PH > > > > http://www.rforge.net/doc/packages/snippets/cloud.html > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
