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ggVennDiagram vs ordinalsimr
A side-by-side editorial comparison of ggVennDiagram and ordinalsimr — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Shared themes:r-package
ggVennDiagram vs ordinalsimr: 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 ordinalsimr?
A Shiny app for choosing the right ordinal test reached CRAN in a single 90-minute burst of tags.
ordinalsimr compares ordinal endpoints by simulation — you specify probability distributions, sample sizes and iterations, and it runs the candidate statistical tests against them so you can see which behaves best. It is delivered as a Shiny application with a data-entry grid, and its entire release history spans six days in January 2025: three tags inside 90 minutes on the 20th, then a CRAN-compliance release on the 26th.
ggVennDiagram vs ordinalsimr: 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.
ordinalsimr
0.0INFRA · APIS
A Shiny app for choosing the right ordinal test reached CRAN in a single 90-minute burst of tags.
◆ Current state
ordinalsimr compares ordinal endpoints by simulation — you specify probability distributions, sample sizes and iterations, and it runs the candidate statistical tests against them so you can see which behaves best. It is delivered as a Shiny application with a data-entry grid, and its entire release history spans six days in January 2025: three tags inside 90 minutes on the 20th, then a CRAN-compliance release on the 26th.
◆ Where it's heading
The release bodies are auto-generated pull-request lists covering the repository's whole history, so they read as a build log rather than a changelog: data entry UI, an rhandsontable statistics module, iteration and sample-size modules, binomial confidence intervals, plot tests, and a rename to the current package name late in development. What that log shows is a single-author project built to completion privately and then published all at once, with the public version history existing mainly to satisfy CRAN.
◆ Prediction
With the CRAN submission accepted and no post-release entries in the feed, the next move is most likely a maintenance release; the PR log gives no signal of planned work beyond the tests already implemented.
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Recent activity from ggVennDiagram and ordinalsimr
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1y agoordinalsimrv0.1.3 CRAN submission
- 1y agoordinalsimrOrdinal endpoint simulator submitted to CRAN ⚡
- 1y agoordinalsimrREADME refreshed and DOI added to the citation file
- 1y agoordinalsimrDevelopment tag ahead of the CRAN submission
- 2y agoggVennDiagramCopied code removed and venn copyright terms satisfied
- 2y agoggVennDiagramCRAN release 1.4.9
- 5y agoggVennDiagramCRAN release v1.1.4
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between ggVennDiagram and ordinalsimr?
Both compete on the same themes — r-package — within Infra & APIs. ggVennDiagram and ordinalsimr 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 ordinalsimr?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. ggVennDiagram and ordinalsimr 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 ordinalsimr?
Top ordinalsimr alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ordinalsimr alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/ordinalsimr for the full list with editorial commentary on each.