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github.com/bnosac/textplot ↗

A bnosac plotting utility in maintenance mode, shipping once every few years

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◆Current state
textplot is the visualisation member of the bnosac NLP family, providing plot methods for dependency parses, biterm topic clusters, co-occurrence graphs, correlation lines and word embeddings. The function surface has been stable since 0.2.0 added textplot_embedding_2d in 2021. The 2026 release touches only documentation links and a vignette guard.
◆Where it's heading
This is a settled package, not a developing one. Releases since 0.2.0 have been reactive: a topic-assignment bug, a layout argument, and now cleanup after the archival of a dependency it linked to. The cadence — four years between 0.2.2 and 0.2.3 — tracks CRAN housekeeping on the wider bnosac stack rather than any roadmap of its own.
◆Prediction
Expect the same pattern: the next release will most likely be another CRAN-compliance pass triggered by a change in udpipe, BTM or another sibling package, rather than a new textplot_* function.

◆Recent moves

  1. 6mo ago

    Drop link to archived ggalt, guard vignette model download

    Removes a documentation link to the archived ggalt package and adds an evaluation filter so the vignette survives a failed model download. Pure CRAN hygiene, consistent with the package's maintenance-only posture.

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  2. 4y ago

    Dependency-parse plots gain a layout argument

    textplot_dependencyparser.default takes a layout argument, so parses are no longer locked to the linear arrangement. A small but real widening of what the function can draw.

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  3. 4y ago

    Fix biterm topic assignment in cluster plots

    Corrects a case where a biterm assigned to two topics could be drawn under either one depending on input ordering. Narrow correctness fix in an edge case where both topics emit the same top words.

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  4. 4y ago

    Adds 2D embedding plots

    Adds textplot_embedding_2d, extending the package from parse and topic visuals to word-embedding projections. The last function added to the package and the effective end of its feature development.

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  5. 5y ago

    Make example conditional on udpipe availability

    Guards an example against a missing udpipe install. A CRAN check fix with no user-visible effect.

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  6. 6y ago

    Plot functions become generic; igraph moved to Suggests

    Makes the six core textplot_* functions generic so other packages can supply methods, and demotes igraph from Imports to Suggests to lighten the install. The change that made textplot usable as a plotting layer for the rest of the bnosac stack.

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