• bug fix:
    • remove non-latin characters from test to pass CRAN check
  • Novelties:
    • Use of gridtext extended richtext_grob by default so that one can use markdown/html syntax in label
    • Remove the area_corr_power factor and provide a power_trans transform to obtain the same effect
    • Add a label_content aesthetic that overrides label_content after scaling factor correction
    • Use transparency instead of white/black for masks
  • Bug fixes:
    • remove a warning when a png dimension was smaller than 20 pixels
    • replace msg by proper warning in the C++ code
    • fix a failed test in Windows R-older due to utf8 related warnings
    • remove non-latin characters from the examples and simplify them to pass CRAN check.
  • Novelties:
    • x2 speedup
  • Bug fix:
    • fix a out of bounds issue
  • Novelties:
    • New thank you word list thanks to Enrico Spinielli
    • Use png instead of Cairo
    • New show_boxes option to visualize the bounding boxes used in the placement algorithm
  • Bug fixes
    • add missing parse_safe function
    • fix a bug when using only one box size
  • Novelties:
    • documentation with a lovely example
    • new mask and shape parameters
    • better replacement by using the right scale
  • Bug fixes:
    • workaround for a Cairo issue with some utf8 strings
    • geom_wordcloud_area works even if no sizes are given
  • add the rm_outside option
  • wordcloud layout acceleration thanks to better word boxing
  • wordcloud and wordcloud2 approximate replacements
  • Initial version