Using tidytext and broom but not finding tidier for LDA_VEM

Question

The tidytext book has examples with a tidier for topicmodels:

library(tidyverse)
library(tidytext)
library(topicmodels)
library(broom)

year_word_counts <- ti         


        

Answer 1

Wow, that is extremely mysterious to me. I am not able to reproduce that error. I installed to all the same versions/etc as you, except that I am on MacOS instead of Windows. I do have tests for the LDA tidiers that run and pass on Windows on Appveyor, so I would expect this to work.

The code you have should work without loading broom, for what it's worth.

library(tidyverse)
library(tidytext)
library(topicmodels)

year_word_counts <- tibble(year = c("2007", "2008", "2009"),
                           word = c("dog", "cat", "chicken"),
                           n = c(1753L, 1157L, 1057L))

animal_dtm <- cast_dtm(data = year_word_counts, document = year, term = word, value = n)

animal_lda <- LDA(animal_dtm, k = 5, control = list( seed = 1234))

class(animal_lda)
#> [1] "LDA_VEM"
#> attr(,"package")
#> [1] "topicmodels"

tidy(animal_lda, matrix = "beta")
#> # A tibble: 15 x 3
#>    topic term                                                beta
#>                                                   
#>  1     1 dog     0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000372
#>  2     2 dog     0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000372
#>  3     3 dog     0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000372
#>  4     4 dog     1.00                                            
#>  5     5 dog     0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000372
#>  6     1 cat     0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000372
#>  7     2 cat     0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000372
#>  8     3 cat     0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000372
#>  9     4 cat     0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000372
#> 10     5 cat     1.00                                            
#> 11     1 chicken 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000372
#> 12     2 chicken 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000372
#> 13     3 chicken 1.00                                            
#> 14     4 chicken 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000372
#> 15     5 chicken 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000372

Created on 2018-02-14 by the reprex package (v0.2.0).

What happens if you load library(methods) as well?