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Nice looking five sets Venn diagrams in R

In a paper I recently came across a nice 5 sets Venn diagram:

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Would anyone know how to code producing such Venn diagram displays in R?

Most of the packages I looked at seem to produce the less clear version

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Any thoughts?

EDIT: seems the Nature article used this web tool: http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/webtools/Venn/ might still be nice to port it to some R package, especially the asymmetric Venns, which are currently not available in any package that I know of

Solution

  • For the record Adrian Dusa made a really nice new R package venn that makes Venn diagrams as above, for up to 7 sets :

    library(venn)
venn(5, ilab=TRUE, zcolor = "style")

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    venn(7, ilab=TRUE, zcolor = "style")

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    Thanks Adrian for the cool package!

    For many sets an UpSet plot might be easier to read though: https://github.com/hms-dbmi/UpSetR

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    And there is now also a newer R package ggVennDiagram that can do both types of plots for 2-7 sets!