Venn diagrams for multiple (8) data lists in R

Question

[arronar]

Hi.

I have around eight different lists with numerical values and i want to create a Venn plot for all of them. My lists looks like the above and have different length.

l1 = c(12,1234,544,6546,6445,45465,4566,1333)
l2 = c(89,2344,2346,6564,6424,770,12,4566,1333,4003,234,432)
l3 = c(4003,4002,432,1234)
l4 = ....
l5 = ....

I tried to use the vennDiagram from limma package but without any success and maybe because they have different length.

Is there any quick way to build a Venn diagram for them without calculating by hand the overlap values for each one with the other with intersect() function ?

Thank you

[russhh]

might be better to just provided a binary matrix and pair-wise overlaps than an unreadable Venn diagram

Answer 1

[Jean-Karim Heriche]

There's the venneuler package for this. Note that Euler diagrams with many sets are usually poor visualizations and are best avoided. You should try alternative visualizations e.g. from the UpSetR package.

[A. Domingues]

Upvote for UpSetR. I used it recently, and though it took me some time to know how to read it properly - and explain it to my colleagues - it was easy enough to create a simple plot. Definitely and improvement on an 8-way venn which will be unreadable.

[arronar]

+1 for UpSetR from me too. It needs some familiarization to read it but it's really helpful.

[Olivier]

Kudos for UpSetR! I've been looking for a tool like this for a while.

Answer 2

[EagleEye]

You can download the generated SVG file and customize as you want.

http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/webtools/Venn/

[ivivek_ngs]

This link is interesting. Thanks for sharing. +1 for the amazing link