With htmlwidget, its become easy to bind d3 scripts to R. rWordCloud is one such package. To install rWordCloud require(devtools) install_github('adymimos/rWordCloud') Two main functions in rWordClouds are d3TextCloud - this function takes strings as input, and performs word count. Before word count, it does stemming, and stop word removal. content <- c('R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics open source','The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis','Polls, surveys of data miners,and studies of scholarly literature databases show that R popularity has increased substantially in recent years','languages programming study open source, analysis') label <- c('a1','a2','a3','a4') d3TextCloud(content = content, label = label ) d3Cloud - Function accepts word and it