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 <xieyi...@gmail.com>: > 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 generate tag cloud, and it has fantastic 3D rotation > effect of the cloud. I've spent a couple of hours porting it into R; > see the source code and effect here: > > http://yihui.name/en/2009/06/creating-tag-cloud-using-r-and-flash-javascript-swfobject/ > > HTH. > > Regards, > Yihui > -- > Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> > Phone: +86-(0)10-82509086 Fax: +86-(0)10-82509086 > Mobile: +86-15810805877 > Homepage: http://www.yihui.name > School of Statistics, Room 1037, Mingde Main Building, > Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China > > > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Brown, Tony > Nicholas<tony.n.br...@vanderbilt.edu> 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 small. The closest thing I can find on the web to >> approximate what I saw can be found here: >> http://stateoftheunion.onetwothree.net/ The example at that website is >> more complicated but captures the general idea. >> >> >> >> Would someone point me in the right direction in terms of replicating >> such a graph. >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Tony >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> ----------------------------------------------------- >> >> Tony N. Brown, Ph.D. >> >> Editor-Elect, American Sociological Review >> >> Associate Professor of Sociology and Human and Organizational >> Development (secondary) >> >> Program Faculty, Effective Health Communication and African American & >> Diaspora Studies >> >> Faculty Head of Hank Ingram House, The Commons >> >> Vanderbilt University >> >> (615) 322-7518 >> >> (615) 322-7505 fax >> >> >> >> >> [[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. >> > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- HUANG Ronggui, Wincent PhD Candidate Dept of Public and Social Administration City University of Hong Kong Home page: http://asrr.r-forge.r-project.org/rghuang.html ______________________________________________ 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.