R Wordcloud2 - Has anyone had success connecting it to Alteryx?

[mcalee1]

Please share how you were able to connect (apply) the R wordcloud2 package to your Alteryx workflow.

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/wordcloud2/index.html

Thank you

[ArtApa]

Hi @mcalee1 - Did you know that there is a native Word Cloud tool? https://help.alteryx.com/current/designer/word-cloud 

[mcalee1]

Hi ArtApa,

Yes, but Wordcloud2 offers a few more features than wordcloud (installed on Alteryx). 

Check out: https://cran.r-project.org/ 

Wordcloud (native to Alteryx)and wordcloud2 are both listed packages on the site.  Both package descriptions are provided for comparison.  

Wordcloud2 in my opinion is superior and I would like to start incorporating it in my reports. Just need to know if it is possible to use this package in the Alteryx environment and what that would look like.

Cheers

[TheOC]

hey @mcalee1 

Only a half answer from me I'm afraid, im not familiar with wordcloud2, or the output it produces. However, I have attached a workflow that imports wordcloud 2 and creates a wordcloud based on a demo dataset. 

However, outputting this is difficult, as it seems to be a wordcloud specific object, and the library doesn't give an easy way to drop out an image. You may want to look at shiny for an interactive output:

https://github.com/Lchiffon/wordcloud2

[mcalee1]

TheOC,

Thank you for your response,  The tool runs when I apply it to my data; however, it does not produce an output.

[TheOC]

hey @mcalee1 

Yeah this is the problem i faced/described. It produces a wordcloud object, that cant be output to a dataframe (which is what is required for R tool to output something into the workstream). You would have to look at the documentation i sent for how to export it as a HTML file, or look into outputting it as binary data and then using that with the image tool in Alteryx 

Hope this helps,
TheOC