Environment modules

Environment Modules is a tool that lets users easily switch between different versions of applications by managing the shell environment.

Basic usage

• module avail will list all available modules

• module spider <string> will seach for all packages containing <string>

• module load <name> will load the <name> module. e.g.: module load apptainer/gubbins.

  • If you don’t specify a version, the highest numeric version number is automatically selected. e.g. module load r will load the latest available R version

  • Alternatively you can module load an excplicit version, .e.g module load r/4.4.3

• module list will show which modules/versions are loaded