word-count-analyzer

Word Count Analyzer – Shiny App

This is a simple Shiny application that analyzes a block of text, providing:

• ✅ Total word count
• ✅ Character count (with and without spaces)
• ✅ A bar chart of the 10 most frequently used words

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🚀 Features

• 📋 Paste any text you want to analyze
• 🔢 Get word and character statistics
• 📈 Visualize your most frequent words
• ✨ Clean and responsive UI built with R Shiny

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📦 Requirements

Before running the app, make sure you have the following R packages installed:

• shiny
• tidyverse
• tidytext
• dplyr
• purrr
• stringr
• ggplot2
• tibble

You can install them manually by running the commands below in your R console:

install.packages("shiny")
install.packages("tidyverse")
install.packages("tidytext")
install.packages("dplyr")
install.packages("purrr")
install.packages("stringr")
install.packages("ggplot2")
install.packages("tibble")

Or, you can also run the packages.R file included in this repo to install them all at once.

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🛠️ How to Run the App

1. Clone or download this repository.
2. Open the folder in Visual Studio Code (VS Code).
3. Open packages.R and run each line using Ctrl + Enter to install the required packages (if not already installed).
4. Open app.R.
5. Run the entire script using Ctrl + Enter.

The app will launch in your default web browser.

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📁 File Structure

File	Description
app.R	The main Shiny app code
packages.R	Script to install required packages
README	This readme file
LICENSE	MIT License

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📸 Screenshot

📃 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.
Feel free to use, modify, and share it — just include credit. ✌️

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🙋🏽‍♀️ Created By

Faithfulness Issijude, Toochi Uduma and Demilade Olagunju
Made with 💙 for learning, fun, and community impact.

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