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How to print three venn diagrams in the same window


I would like to put together these three venn diagrams. So when I print them, they appear in the same page

library(VennDiagram)
df1 <- data.frame(G1=sample(1:100, 10), G2=sample(1:100, 10), 
                  G3=sample(1:100, 10), G4=sample(1:100, 10))
venn.plot.df1 <- venn.diagram(x = as.list(df1), filename = NULL,
                            cat.col = c( "black",   "red",     "green3",  "blue" ),
                            fill=c("black",   "red",     "green3",  "blue"))
grid.draw(venn.plot.df1)

df2 <- data.frame(G1=sample(1:100, 10), G2=sample(1:100, 10), 
                  G3=sample(1:100, 10), G4=sample(1:100, 10))
venn.plot.df2 <- venn.diagram(x = as.list(df2), filename = NULL,
                              cat.col = c( "black",   "red",     "green3",  "blue" ),
                              fill=c("black",   "red",     "green3",  "blue"))
grid.draw(venn.plot.df2)

df3 <- data.frame(G1=sample(1:100, 10), G2=sample(1:100, 10), 
                  G3=sample(1:100, 10), G4=sample(1:100, 10))
venn.plot.df3 <- venn.diagram(x = as.list(df3), filename = NULL,
                              cat.col = c( "black",   "red",     "green3",  "blue" ),
                              fill=c("black",   "red",     "green3",  "blue"))
grid.draw(venn.plot.df3)

thanks!


Solution

  • The venn.diagram function is returning gList objects. It seems that the way to arrange them is to first convert them to gTree objects and then plot with the grid.arrange function:

    library(gridExtra)
    grid.arrange(gTree(children=venn.plot.df1), gTree(children=venn.plot.df2),
                 gTree(children=venn.plot.df3), ncol=3)
    

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