On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:14 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>wrote:

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> On May 31, 2011, at 10:38 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
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>> On May 31, 2011, at 10:19 AM, heimat los wrote:
>>
>>  On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Matt Shotwell <matt@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
>>>
>>
>> Something like this may work:
>>
>> words <- read.table(file="name.txt", sep="=", header=FALSE)
>> wvec <- words$V1
>> names(wvec) <- rownames(words)
>>
>
> Looking at Shotwell answer, I see that I got the column name wrong. His is
> the better answer.
>
> --
> David.
>
>
>> Need to change the header argument and the col-name argument to "$" if you
>> have a header line.
>>
>> --
>> David (DWin)
>>
>>
>>> 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
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>> David Winsemius, MD
>> West Hartford, CT
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> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT
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Thank you all, your answers helped me a lot.

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