R Venn Diagram package Venerable unavailable - alternative package?

Question

I need to plot area proportional Venn Diagrams with at least 5 variables.

I tried to install Vennerable package but its just not available anymore. Link to windows b

Answer 1

Thorough inspection leads to this bioinformatics engine, of higher performance than available R packages for Venn diagrams out there so far. It is written in Perl by Belgium author Lieven Sterck (lieven.sterck@psb.vib-ugent.be) from Ghent University.

The webtool generates as output not only the requested diagram (provided the input consists of 5 sets or less, already surpassing capabilities of most R packages available for Venn diagrams) but also produces a text file listing the elements contained in each intersection group for detailed inspection. Lists, although not geometric diagrams as such, can be generated even for comparisons exceeding 5 sets. Furthermore, this webtool also outputs the total number of elements per dataset in a tabulated manner for confirmation of unique entries.

The only missing feature: a weighted option equivalent to the "Chow-Ruskey" in the Vennerable R package, which however seems to suffer from some issues (besides flaky installation as mentioned above) adding an extra element to the last group list provided in the data frame for overlap. Vennerable (and other packages of the same ilk) only generates a figure with group labels and numbers the elements contained per intersection, not listing them. Venn diagrams and intersection data in general, although simple in principle are of great utility to illustrate coverage of "multiomics" biological data just to provide with an example.