Installing and managing different versions of Bioconductor packages in environments

Bioconductor is an open source project that provides a collection of R packages for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data. It is focused on the needs of the bioinformatics and computational biology communities. The packages in Bioconductor cover a wide range of topics, including data representation and management, preprocessing and normalization, statistical analysis, and visualization of high-throughput genomic data. Bioconductor exists as a project distinct from R because it addresses the specific needs of the bioinformatics community, and requires different data structures, analysis methods, and visualization techniques to other fields. A user might choose Bioconductor tools because they are specifically designed for the analysis of genomic data and are often more specialized than general-purpose R packages. Bioconductor usually comes with its own installer, but there are other ways to work...