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Last updated:2026-03-13 12:43
Simple Venn Diagram
Install and load the required package (if not already installed)
if (!requireNamespace("VennDiagram", quietly = TRUE)) {
install.packages("VennDiagram", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org")
}
library(VennDiagram)
## Loading required package: grid
## Loading required package: futile.logger
Create example data
set.seed(1)
groupA <- sample(1:100, 30)
groupB <- sample(1:100, 40)
groupC <- sample(1:100, 35)
Create the Venn diagram
venn.diagram(
disable.logging = TRUE,
x = list(GroupA = groupA, GroupB = groupB, GroupC = groupC),
filename = "venn_diagram.png",
imagetype = "png",
col = "transparent",
fill = c("cornflowerblue", "darkorange1", "darkseagreen2"),
alpha = 0.5,
cex = 1.5,
main = "My Venn Diagram",
fontface = "bold",
fontfamily = "sans",
cat.col = c("cornflowerblue", "darkorange1", "darkseagreen2"),
cat.cex = 1.2,
cat.fontface = "bold",
margin = 0.1
)
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] $disable.logging
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] [1] TRUE
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25]
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] $x
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] list(GroupA = groupA, GroupB = groupB, GroupC = groupC)
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25]
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] $filename
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] [1] "venn_diagram.png"
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25]
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] $imagetype
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] [1] "png"
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25]
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] $col
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] [1] "transparent"
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25]
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] $fill
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] c("cornflowerblue", "darkorange1", "darkseagreen2")
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25]
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] $alpha
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] [1] 0.5
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25]
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] $cex
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] [1] 1.5
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25]
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] $main
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] [1] "My Venn Diagram"
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25]
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] $fontface
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] [1] "bold"
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25]
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] $fontfamily
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] [1] "sans"
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25]
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] $cat.col
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] c("cornflowerblue", "darkorange1", "darkseagreen2")
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25]
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] $cat.cex
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] [1] 1.2
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25]
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] $cat.fontface
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] [1] "bold"
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25]
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] $margin
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25] [1] 0.1
## INFO [2026-03-06 14:44:25]
## [1] 1
The above code generates the png file “venn_diagram.png”:

sessionInfo()
## R version 4.5.2 (2025-10-31)
## Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
## Running under: Linux Mint 22.2
##
## Matrix products: default
## BLAS: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3.12.0
## LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.12.0 LAPACK version 3.12.0
##
## locale:
## [1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
## [3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8
## [5] LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8
## [7] LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
## [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
## [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
##
## time zone: America/Toronto
## tzcode source: system (glibc)
##
## attached base packages:
## [1] grid stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods
## [8] base
##
## other attached packages:
## [1] VennDiagram_1.8.2 futile.logger_1.4.9
##
## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
## [1] cli_3.6.5 knitr_1.51 rlang_1.1.7
## [4] xfun_0.56 otel_0.2.0 jsonlite_2.0.0
## [7] htmltools_0.5.9 formatR_1.14 sass_0.4.10
## [10] rmarkdown_2.30 evaluate_1.0.5 jquerylib_0.1.4
## [13] fastmap_1.2.0 yaml_2.3.12 lifecycle_1.0.5
## [16] bookdown_0.46 compiler_4.5.2 lambda.r_1.2.4
## [19] blogdown_1.23 digest_0.6.39 R6_2.6.1
## [22] futile.options_1.0.1 bslib_0.10.0 tools_4.5.2
## [25] cachem_1.1.0
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