[R] Package: VennDiagram. Error in draw.pairwise.venn Impossible: cross section area too large

Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 00:50:57 CET 2013


Fabrice Tourre <fabrice.ciup <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Dear list,
> 
> When I use VennDiagram package, I got a error as follow:
> 
> venn.plot <- draw.pairwise.venn(
> area1 = 3186,
> area2 = 325,
> cross.area = 5880);
> 
> Error in draw.pairwise.venn(area1 = 3186, area2 = 325, cross.area = 588) :
>   Impossible: cross section area too large.
> 
> Does anyone have suggestion?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 

  I don't know the package, but it looks like you're trying to 
draw two bubbles with areas of 3186 and 325.  cross.area sounds like
the area of the intersection.  You can't have an area of intersection
that's bigger than one of the categories ...



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