[R] How to plot more than 3 sets in Venn Diagrams?

[David Forrest]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Jim Lemon wrote:

> Tan Hui Hui Jenny wrote:
> > I'm trying to plot Venn diagrams with more than 3 sets (5 actually) in order to describe graphically the genetic variation between populations.
> >
> > I tried the limma library but realised it can only plot 3 sets.
> >
> > Is there any solution? Of course I could plot the chart manually but it'll take too long (have other datasets)..... One of my dataset is given below.
> >
> Hi Jenny,
>
> Best I could do is four sets. The code is a bit rough but consistent
> with the vennDiagram function in the limma package.
>
> Jim
>

There's a pretty 5-set radially symmetric Venn diagram on
http://www.combinatorics.org/Surveys/ds5/VennSymmEJC.html

Dave
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