plot.euler: Plot Euler and Venn diagrams

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Plot Euler and Venn diagrams

Description

Plot diagrams fit with euler() and venn() using grid::Grid() graphics. This function sets up all the necessary plot parameters and computes the geometry of the diagram. plot.eulergram(), meanwhile, does the actual plotting of the diagram. Please see the Details section to learn about the individual settings for each argument.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'euler'
plot(
  x,
  fills = TRUE,
  patterns = FALSE,
  edges = TRUE,
  legend = FALSE,
  labels = identical(legend, FALSE),
  quantities = FALSE,
  annotations = NULL,
  strips = NULL,
  bg = FALSE,
  main = NULL,
  complement = TRUE,
  rotate = 0,
  n = 200L,
  adjust_labels = TRUE,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'eulerr_venn'
plot(
  x,
  fills = TRUE,
  patterns = FALSE,
  edges = TRUE,
  legend = FALSE,
  labels = identical(legend, FALSE),
  quantities = TRUE,
  strips = NULL,
  bg = FALSE,
  main = NULL,
  complement = TRUE,
  n = 200L,
  adjust_labels = TRUE,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'venn'
plot(...)

Arguments

x	an object of class 'euler', generated from euler()
fills	a logical, vector, or list of graphical parameters for the fills in the diagram. Vectors are assumed to be colors for the fills. See grid::grid.path(). Named fill vectors can be matched in fills$mode = "disjoint" (default) or fills$mode = "union".
patterns	a logical, vector, or list of graphical parameters for fill patterns in the diagram. Vectors are assumed to be pattern types (currently "stripes" or NA), where NA means no pattern. Supported list items are type, angle, col, lwd, and alpha. Named pattern vectors can be matched in patterns$mode = "disjoint" (default) or patterns$mode = "union".
edges	a logical, vector, or list of graphical parameters for the edges in the diagram. Vectors are assumed to be colors for the edges. See grid::grid.polyline().
legend	a logical scalar or list. If a list, the item side can be used to set the location of the legend and symbol_size can be used to scale the legend symbols independently of the text size. See grid::grid.legend().
labels	a logical, vector, or list. Vectors are assumed to be text for the labels. See grid::grid.text(). In addition to the grid::gpar() fields, the following placement controls are supported (delegated to the eunoia Rust crate): labels$placement ("raycast" (default), "force_directed", or "elbow") selects the strategy used when a label does not fit inside its region. "raycast" and "force_directed" produce straight leader lines (the former places the label along the centroid→POI ray, the latter relaxes labels with a polygon-aware force solver). "elbow" produces d3-pie style orthogonal leaders, stacking exterior labels in left/right columns reached by a three-segment polyline. labels$margin (numeric) overrides the per-region margin between an exterior label and the diagram (default is half the larger of the label's width and height); labels$tether ("poi" (default) or "boundary") chooses where the leader line attaches on the source region; labels$gap controls the visible gap between the leader tip and the label box edge — a bare numeric is interpreted as lines (font-relative), a grid::unit() is honored as given, and the default NULL tracks eulerr_options()$padding so the gap matches the spacing between label and quantity; labels$leader is a list (col, alpha, lwd, lty, lex) styling the leader line drawn from the tether to the exterior label. Strategy-specific knobs live in their own sublists: labels$force_directed = list(iterations = ...) sets the iteration cap for the force-directed solver, and labels$elbow = list(min_gap = ...) sets the minimum vertical centre-to-centre spacing between stacked label boxes in an elbow column.
quantities	a logical, vector, or list. Vectors are assumed to be text for the quantities' labels, which by default are the original values in the input to euler(). In addition to plain vectors, quantities$labels can also be a named vector keyed by subset names (e.g., "A", "B", "A&B"), which is useful for supplying custom text for overlap regions. If quantities$labels is NULL, quantities$format can be used to control number formatting as a list with an item fun (a function such as signif() or round()) and optional extra arguments passed to that function (for example, list(fun = prettyNum, big.mark = ",")). quantities$total can be used to set an external denominator for percent/fraction quantities (instead of the plotted total). to arguments that apply to grid::grid.text(), an argument type may also be used which should be a combination of "counts", "percent", and "fraction". The first item will be printed first and the second will be printed thereafter inside brackets. The default is type = "counts". For finer control over the rendered text, set quantities$template to a string with {counts}, {percent}, and/or {fraction} placeholders, for example "{counts}\n{percent}" to put the count and percentage on separate lines or "n={counts} ({percent})" for arbitrary layout. When template is set it overrides type; the set of placeholders in the template determines which values are computed.
annotations	free-form per-region text rendered as a third stacked element below the quantity (or below the label when no quantity is drawn). Accepts a named character vector keyed by subset name (e.g. c(A = "n = 12", "A&B" = "n = 3")) as a shorthand for ⁠list(labels = <vector>)⁠, or a list with labels plus grid::gpar() fields (col, alpha, fontsize, cex, fontfamily, lineheight, font, rot). Regions absent from labels are not annotated. The composite tag bbox grows to include the annotation, so exterior placement and leader lines adapt automatically. Defaults to slightly smaller text than labels / quantities (cex = 0.8).
strips	a list, ignored unless the 'by' argument was used in euler(). In addition to graphical parameters, this argument can include labels = list(top = ..., left = ...) for custom strip labels. Unnamed labels are interpreted in display order. Named labels are matched by factor levels and then reordered to display order.
bg	a logical, character, or list controlling the background grob. Character values are interpreted as the background fill color.
main	a title for the plot in the form of a character, expression, list or something that can be sensibly converted to a label via grDevices::as.graphicsAnnot(). A list of length one can be provided, in which case its only element is used as the label. If a list of longer length is provided, an item named 'label' must be provided (and will be used for the actual text).
complement	a logical, character, or list controlling the container box and complement region for diagrams fit with ⁠complement =⁠ in euler(). TRUE (default) draws the container with a dashed outline (lty = 2), no fill, and the complement count inside the complement region. FALSE suppresses the container and its label entirely. A character value is treated as a fill color shorthand. A list accepts fill, alpha, col, lty, lwd, lex (outline + label gpar), fontsize, cex, font, fontfamily, lineheight (label only), and label (custom text — defaults to the complement count). Also accepts the same placement controls as labels (placement, margin, tether, gap, leader, force_directed, elbow) for the complement count label. Has no effect if the diagram was fit without ⁠complement =⁠. Defaults can be set via eulerr_options(complement = ...).
rotate	a numeric value giving the angle in degrees by which to rotate the entire diagram layout. Positive values rotate counter-clockwise. Defaults to 0 (no rotation).
n	number of vertices for the edges and fills
adjust_labels	a logical. If TRUE, adjustment will be made to avoid overlaps or out-of-limits plotting of labels, quantities, and percentages.
...	parameters to update fills and edges with and thereby a shortcut to set these parameters grid::grid.text().

Details

The only difference between plot.euler() and plot.venn() is that quantities is set to TRUE by default in the latter and FALSE in the former.

Most of the arguments to this function accept either a logical, a vector, or a list where

• logical values set the attribute on or off,

• vectors are shortcuts to commonly used options (see the individual parameters), and

• lists enable fine-grained control, including graphical parameters as described in grid::gpar() and control arguments that are specific to each argument.

The various grid::gpar() values that are available for each argument are:

	fills	edges	labels	quantities	annotations	strips	legend	main
col		x	x	x	x	x	x	x
fill	x
alpha	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
lty		x
lwd		x
lex		x
fontsize			x	x	x	x	x	x
cex			x	x	x	x	x	x
fontfamily			x	x	x	x	x	x
lineheight			x	x	x	x	x	x
font			x	x	x	x	x	x

Defaults for these values, as well as other parameters of the plots, can be set globally using eulerr_options().

If the diagram has been fit using the data.frame or matrix methods and using the by argument, the plot area will be split into panels for each combination of the one to two factors. The fills, patterns, edges, labels, quantities, and annotations arguments each accept an optional by_group entry: a named list of override lists keyed by panel name (the names of the fitted object). For multi-by fits the panel name is the levels joined by ., e.g. "Male.German". Panels not listed in by_group use the top-level settings unchanged. Only graphical fields (and rot for labels, quantities, and annotations) may be overridden per panel; structural fields such as quantities$type, quantities$format, annotations$labels, or named-by-subset fills$fill must be set at the top level.

For users who are looking to plot their diagram using another package, all the necessary parameters can be collected if the result of this function is assigned to a variable (rather than printed to screen).

Value

Provides an object of class 'eulergram' , which is a description of the diagram to be drawn. plot.eulergram() does the actual drawing of the diagram.

See Also

euler(), plot.eulergram(), grid::gpar(), grid::grid.polyline(), grid::grid.path(), grid::grid.legend(), grid::grid.text()

Examples

fit <- euler(c("A" = 10, "B" = 5, "A&B" = 3))

# Customize colors, remove borders, bump alpha, color labels white
plot(fit,
     fills = list(fill = c("red", "steelblue4"), alpha = 0.5),
     labels = list(col = "white", font = 4))

# Add quantities to the plot
plot(fit, quantities = TRUE)

# Add free-form per-region annotations below the counts
plot(
  fit,
  quantities = TRUE,
  annotations = c(A = "mean = 35", "A&B" = "mean = 41")
)

# Add a custom legend and retain quantities
plot(fit, quantities = TRUE, legend = list(labels = c("foo", "bar")))

# Plot without fills and distinguish sets with border types instead
plot(fit, fills = "transparent", lty = 1:2)

# Save plot parameters to plot using some other method
diagram_description <- plot(fit)

# Plots using 'by' argument
plot(euler(fruits[, 1:4], by = list(sex)), legend = TRUE)

# Per-panel styling with `by_group`
plot(
  venn(fruits[, 1:4], by = list(sex)),
  quantities = list(
    by_group = list(
      male = list(col = "steelblue"),
      female = list(col = "tomato")
    )
  )
)

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