Wordcloud showing image but not words in R

Question

Having trouble getting the words to show up on an image mask for a word cloud in R.

Using this Simpsons PNG (https://imgbin.com/png/PV5MuKbG/lisa-simpson-bart-simpson-homer-simpson-maggie-simpson-mayor-quimby-png)

Code is below:

wc1 <- sort(table(bplot_one$word), decreasing = TRUE)

figPath <- "Simpsons.png" 

wordcloud2(wc1, figPath = figPath)

It executed fine, but all I get is the png without the words

Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks

Answer 1

This is listed as an open issue on the package site: Fig Mask and lettercloud are not working with package installed from github #68. There is a workaround posted: mask and letterCloud silently fail #12.

The workaround is to refresh the viewer or open in a browser.