Nice looking five sets Venn diagrams

Question

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

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

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

Answer 1

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")

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

Thanks Adrian for the cool package!

Answer 2

I also used the online Venn diagram generator at the University of Ghent Bioinformatics site and wanted my own function. The idea of course is to have each intersection region reasonably sized so that the text for the counts can all be the same size. Here is my attempt:

fiveCellVenn <- function(colorList=col2rgb(rainbow(5)),
                         cellCounts=seq(1,31,1),
                         cellLabels=c("one","two","three","four","five"),
                         saturation=.25){
  rotateVec <-function(vec,amount){
    return(c(vec[(amount+1):length(vec)], vec[1:amount]))
  }
  n=70
  xhull <- c()
  yhull <- c()
  for (i in 1:n){
    xhull <- c(xhull, cos((i*2*pi)/n))
    yhull <- c(yhull, sin((i*2*pi)/n))
  }
## The Venn cells begin as a 70-sided regular polygon
## plot(xhull, yhull)
## polygon(xhull, yhull)
## Multiply each unit vector in the hull by a scalar, arrived at by 
## iterative adjustment.
  adjust <-c(10,10.35,10.6,10.5,10.4,10.3,10.1,9.6,9,8.5,
             8,7.625,7.25,7.125,7,6.875,6.75,6.875,7,7.125,
             7.25,7.625,8.1,9.125,10.25,11.375,12.5,13.15,13.8,14.3,
             14.6,14.725,14.7,14.7,14.7,14.4,14.1,13.8,13.5,12.8,
             12.1,11.15,10.2,9.6,8.95,8.3,7.7,7,6.25,5.6,
             5,4.75,4.5,4.25,4,3.8,3.6,3.45,3.45,3.45,
             3.5,3.625,3.75,3.825,4,4.25,4.5,5.75,7.25,8.5)
  newxhull <- xhull*adjust
  newyhull <- yhull*adjust
## Text location was also done by hand:
  textLocationX <- c(-13,-3,8,9,-4,-7.5,7.5,-9,-8,4,6.5,-2,9,-4,1.4,4,-7.5,-3.5,7.5,-6,-6.5,6,1.5,4,-0.5,4.5,0,-5,-3.5,3.5,0)
  textLocationY <- c(1,12,8,-8,-12,6.5,4.5,1,-4,8.5,-6,8.5,-1.5,-8,-9,5,3.5,6,1.5,-6,-1.5,-2,8,-7,-6.5,2,5.5,2,-3.5,-4,0)
  textLocationMatrix <- matrix(cbind(textLocationX,textLocationY),nrow=31,ncol=2)
  plot(newxhull, newyhull, pch=".", xlim=c(-16,16), ylim=c(-16,16),
       axes=FALSE,xlab="",ylab="")
  newAdjust<-adjust
  for (i in 1:5){
    newxhull <- xhull*newAdjust
    newyhull <- yhull*newAdjust
    polygon(newxhull, newyhull, 
            border=rgb(colorList[1,i]/255, colorList[2,i]/255, colorList[3,i]/255, 1),
            lwd=2,
            col=rgb(colorList[1,i]/255, colorList[2,i]/255, colorList[3,i]/255,saturation))
    newAdjust <- rotateVec(newAdjust,14)
  }
  text(textLocationMatrix[,1], textLocationMatrix[,2],labels=as.character(cellCounts))
  text(textLocationMatrix[c(17,2,3,24,14),1]*c(2,1.25,1.5,2,2),
       textLocationMatrix[c(17,2,3,24,14),2]*c(2,1.35,1.5,2,2),
       labels=cellLabels)
##  uncomment and run to get points and grid for adjusting text location
##  points(textLocationMatrix[,1], textLocationMatrix[,2])
##  for (i in -16:16){
##   if (i%%5==0){
##     color="black"
##   }else{
##     color="lightblue"
##   }
##  abline(v=i,col=color)
##  abline(h=i, col=color)
##  }
}

Then

fiveCellVenn()

yields a Venn similar to your first one. I don't have the rep to post an image yet. You'll probably want to subdue the colors and move the cell names around.