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Basic commands

Basic commands to access software provided via EESSI

EESSI provides software through environment module files and Lmod.

To see which modules (and extensions) are available, run:

module avail

Below is a short excerpt of the output produced by module avail, showing 10 modules only. 

   PyYAML/5.3-GCCcore-9.3.0
   Qt5/5.14.1-GCCcore-9.3.0
   Qt5/5.15.2-GCCcore-10.3.0                               (D)
   QuantumESPRESSO/6.6-foss-2020a
   R-bundle-Bioconductor/3.11-foss-2020a-R-4.0.0
   R/4.0.0-foss-2020a
   R/4.1.0-foss-2021a                                      (D)
   re2c/1.3-GCCcore-9.3.0
   re2c/2.1.1-GCCcore-10.3.0                               (D)
   RStudio-Server/1.3.1093-foss-2020a-Java-11-R-4.0.0

Load modules with module load package/version, e.g., module load R/4.1.0-foss-2021a, and try out the software. See below for a short session

[EESSI 2023.06] $ module load R/4.1.0-foss-2021a
[EESSI 2021.06] $ which R
/cvmfs/software.eessi.io/versions/2021.12/software/linux/x86_64/intel/skylake_avx512/software/R/4.1.0-foss-2021a/bin/R
[EESSI 2023.06] $ R --version
R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18) -- "Camp Pontanezen"
Copyright (C) 2021 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the
GNU General Public License versions 2 or 3.
For more information about these matters see
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.