
As of 2018, I have purchased a pool of floating licenses, which means that the total number of simultaneous users is limited, but not the total number of installations. However, only install the package this way if you know what you are doing. The advantage will be that all users on this computer will have this R package available. The location where the library is installed may need to be adapted, and you may need superuser rights.
From a terminal, under OS X or Linux, you can also use "R CMD INSTALL -l /usr/lib/R/site-library asreml_3.0_R_", or "R CMD INSTALL asreml_3.0_R_". Under Windows and newer R versions, you may have to add the option type="binary" Everything should also work by using install.packages(path_to_your_asreml-R.zip_or_tar.gz_file,repos=NULL) from the R command line. RStudio), then there generally is an option in the menu to install R packages from a local file.
There are several ways in which you can do this:
Install ASReml-R, the R package that is used to interface ASReml from R. On a Mac, I'd install it in /Applications/asreml3. Under Linux, I usually install it under /usr/local/asreml3, and create a symbolic from /usr/local/asreml3/bin/asreml.sh to /usr/local/bin/asreml. This software will need to be licensed to run, which is described below. Install ASReml, the stand-alone software.
Make sure you have the version that goes with your operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux 32 or 64bit). Then, download ASReml and ASReml-R from.You will need your login credentials later.