Using ASReml-R and ASReml-SA on Bunya HPC

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ASReml-R

ASReml-R is a statistical analysis software package for linear mixed models. Individuals can install ASReml-R as a personal software package into their R or RStudio environment on Bunya HPC.

How to setup ASReml-R for yourself

Please don’t perform these steps on a login node.</br> Instead, use an interactive batch job or onBunya session.

There is a very useful CRAN R package from the University of Adelaide, South Australia, called biometryassist The biometryassist package will handle the installation of ASReml-R for you by providing an R function called install_asreml().

#Install the biometryassist package once.
install.packages("biometryassist")
#Load the package
library(biometryassist)

#Install the ASReml R package
install_asreml(check_version="FALSE")  #Must not check for newer version, it will fail
#Load the asreml R package
library(asreml)

#Contact RCC Support before attempting the following steps
#Activate and test the license
asreml.license.activate()
asreml.license.status()

ASReml-SA

ASReml-SA is a stand alone version of ASReml.
ASReml-SA is available via the modules mechanism on Bunya HPC. ASReml-SA should not and cannot be run on login nodes (it is a software container). Please use a regular batch job, or for interactive use an interactive batch job or onBunya session.

Licensing

The software is licensed. Please contact rcc-support@uq.edu.au regarding licensing.