BayesAss Edition 3.0 User’s Manual

Bruce Rannala

Last updated 7 October 2011

1 Installation

The latest version of BA3 can be downloaded here. Unzip the archive by double clicking the downloaded file. A folder will be created in your current directory containing the program source code, documentation, and precompiled binary files for various computer operating systems. If you have a compiler and are adventurous you can try compiling the source code (see below), otherwise refer to the instructions below to use a precompiled binary file for your specific computer operating system.

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Mac OS X

Download the zip archived file with the latest version of the software here. Unzip the archive by double clicking the downloaded file. A folder will be created in your current directory containing the program executable file BA3, example data files (in subfolder examples

), and the manual (in subfolder docs).

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Windows

A Windows binary for BA3 is not yet available.

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Compiling the program

The source code for the program is found in the source tarball distribution file named

BA3-*.*.*.tar.gz

where * indicate the version numbers. The program uses routines from the gnu scientific library (gsl) and this library (and header files) must be installed prior to compiling. The gsl library can be found here. If using a command line C++ compiler (e.g., g++, c++, etc), with gsl installed, simply execute the following terminal commands in the directory that contains the source tarball:

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