area - 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 build doesn't work (page not found).

Is there an alternative package?

Answer 1

The source files, last updated in 2007, are downloadable from Sourceforge as a tar.gz file:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vennerable/files/R%20Source%20package/1.1.1.1/Vennerable_1.1.1.1.tar.gz/download

Better yet, what appears to be more updated (Edit: and broken) source files, last updated in 2009, can be checked out from R-Forge using SVN:

svn checkout svn://svn.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/vennerable

Can you build it yourself with Rtools? The Linux x86_64 build log suggests a problem with the vignette causing the build to fail, and the source tar.gz and binaries to be unavailable. Perhaps building it yourself without the vignette will work. The package was last updated 19 months ago, so it does not appear to be currently maintained.

Edit

It seems the most recent revisions from R-Forge break the package. There is a problem with the compute.Venn() function, and a number of tests fail. I built the Venerable_1.1.1.1 revision from Sourceforge for you for x86_64 architecture. You can download it at:

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/jthetzel-public/Vennerable_1.1.1.1.zip

I haven't actually tested the package, but it successfully installs and loads into R 2.13.0 x86_64 on Windows 7. If you have further questions, you can email the author of the package, Jonathan Swinton, whose email you will find in the DESCRIPTION file in the zip archive.

Note the rare correct use of all caps to refer to the DESCRIPTION file, which was so named for presumably historic reasons (though I'd be interested if anyone has a definitive explanation). Most other uses of all caps are generally frowned upon, unless you specifically intend to raise the systolic pressure of the SO community.