R

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.

Installation notes

The new 3.2.5 version

• compiled with gcc version 4.8.2 (Using Red Hat's Development Toolkit). Make sure it is not version 4.4.7, as this lacks the crucial C++11 additions. (Check for this using

  gcc -v

• linked to OpenBLAS/0.2.19