Introduction

This is a well known open source statistics packages and there is abundant information on the internet about using it.

Marvin's R version is 3.2.1 which dates from mid 2015. Despite this being a little old now (early 2017), it has a very large number of libraries installed, and these are kept up to date.

Nevertheless, the Bioconductor project has been forging ahead recently issues started to appear relating to the age of the the 3.2.1 version.