Word Cloud Generator (Shiny App)

A user-friendly R/Shiny application to generate customizable word clouds from raw text files. This tool supports multiple languages and provides options for cleaning data and exporting results.

Features

• Multi-language support: Choose between English, French, Spanish, and German for stopword removal.
• Dynamic text cleaning: Automatically handles punctuation, numbers, and whitespace.
• Customizable visuals: Adjust word count, minimum frequency, and color palettes.
• Export ready: Download high-resolution PNG versions of your generated word clouds.
• Modern UI: Built with the flatly Bootstrap theme and interactive loading spinners.

Installation

To run this app locally, ensure you have R and RStudio installed.

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/word-cloud-generator.git

2. Open the project in R and install the required dependencies:

   install.packages(c("shiny", "shinyjs", "shinycssloaders", "tm", "wordcloud", "RColorBrewer", "bslib"))

3. Run the application:

   shiny::runApp()

Usage

1. Upload a .txt file.
2. Select the language of the text to filter out common stopwords.
3. Fine-tune the appearance using the sliders and dropdowns.
4. Click Download Word Cloud to save your image.

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Copyright © 2026 — Guillaume Desagulier / Université Bordeaux Montaigne