I am so pleased to announce that tidytext 0.1.2 is now available on CRAN. This release of tidytext, a package for text mining using tidy data principles by Dave Robinson and me, includes some bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as some new functionality. There is now a handy function for accessing the various lexicons in the sentiments dataset without the columns that are not used in that particular dataset; this makes these datasets even easier to use with pipes and joins from …