library("tm") txt = read.csv("TEXT.txt", header=F) # txt[1] contains the text I am interested in c = Corpus(VectorSource(txt[1])) tdm <- TermDocumentMatrix(c) m <- as.matrix(tdm) v <- sort(rowSums(m),decreasing=TRUE) d <- data.frame(word = names(v),freq=v) wordcloud(d$word,d$freq,min.freq=1)