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Comparison · Infra & APIs
ggVennDiagram vs hereR
A side-by-side editorial comparison of ggVennDiagram and hereR — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Shared themes:r-package
ggVennDiagram vs hereR: at a glance
What is ggVennDiagram?
A Venn diagram package whose public release notes say almost nothing — including about its copyright cleanup.
ggVennDiagram draws Venn diagrams as ggplot2 objects. The visible release feed is thin and irregular: three entries between 2021 and 2024, two of which contain nothing but a pointer to NEWS. Only the most recent, V1.5, describes actual changes, and both of them are legal housekeeping rather than features.
What is hereR?
An R client for HERE's location APIs, shaped almost entirely by what the vendor exposes next.
hereR wraps HERE's routing, isoline, traffic, weather and geocoding endpoints for R, returning sf objects. Development is steady and reactive: each release either adopts a transport mode, parameter or API version HERE has newly made available, or corrects a rate limit that was producing 429 errors in practice. The current release adds speed-limit control and five more isoline transport modes.
ggVennDiagram vs hereR: editorial side-by-side
ggVennDiagram
0.0INFRA · APIS
A Venn diagram package whose public release notes say almost nothing — including about its copyright cleanup.
◆ Current state
ggVennDiagram draws Venn diagrams as ggplot2 objects. The visible release feed is thin and irregular: three entries between 2021 and 2024, two of which contain nothing but a pointer to NEWS. Only the most recent, V1.5, describes actual changes, and both of them are legal housekeeping rather than features.
◆ Where it's heading
What can be read here is not a feature direction but a tidying of provenance. V1.5 removed code copied from yulab.utils and made the package comply with the copyright terms of the venn package it draws on, with the yulab.utils maintainer appearing as a first-time contributor to do it. Everything else in the window defers to a changelog kept outside the feed, so the direction of the package itself is not readable from these entries.
◆ Prediction
No reliable prediction is available from this feed — the release notes are pointers rather than descriptions, and the visible entries skip whole version ranges.
hereR
0.0INFRA · APIS
An R client for HERE's location APIs, shaped almost entirely by what the vendor exposes next.
◆ Current state
hereR wraps HERE's routing, isoline, traffic, weather and geocoding endpoints for R, returning sf objects. Development is steady and reactive: each release either adopts a transport mode, parameter or API version HERE has newly made available, or corrects a rate limit that was producing 429 errors in practice. The current release adds speed-limit control and five more isoline transport modes.
◆ Where it's heading
Two threads run through the whole history. One is coverage — new modes, tolls and currency, arrival times, speed limits — arriving in the package shortly after they appear in HERE's API. The other is defensive operational tuning, with request rates repeatedly lowered below HERE's documented limits because the documented limits do not hold up. 1.0.0 was the one moment the package had to move rather than choose, migrating traffic to v7 and weather to v3 and breaking three functions' output in the process.
◆ Prediction
Expect the next release to enable whatever HERE exposes next in routing or isolines, and to keep adjusting request rates empirically; the package's own design appears settled.
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Recent activity from ggVennDiagram and hereR
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1y agohereRSpeed limits and five more isoline transport modes
- 1y agohereRPedestrian consumption model dropped; route request rate lowered
- 2y agoggVennDiagramCopied code removed and venn copyright terms satisfied
- 2y agoggVennDiagramCRAN release 1.4.9
- 2y agohereRTraffic v7 and Weather v3 migration breaks three functions
- 3y agohereRResubmission after CRAN archival over an undeliverable email
- 4y agohereRToll costs and currency selection arrive in routing
- 4y agohereRArrival-time routing enabled; failed requests report their endpoint
- 5y agoggVennDiagramCRAN release v1.1.4
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between ggVennDiagram and hereR?
Both compete on the same themes — r-package — within Infra & APIs. ggVennDiagram and hereR are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is ggVennDiagram better than hereR?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. ggVennDiagram and hereR are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to ggVennDiagram?
Top ggVennDiagram alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ggVennDiagram alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/ggvenndiagram for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to hereR?
Top hereR alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "hereR alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/herer for the full list with editorial commentary on each.