qtltools_plotTrans.R command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

qtltools_plotTrans.R: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: qtltools_plotTrans.R: command not found

Solutions to qtltools_plotTrans.R: command not found

How To Fix qtltools_plotTrans.R: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu qtltools_plotTrans.R is provided by qtltools package.

qtltools is:

QTLtools is a tool set for molecular Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) discovery and analysis. It allows user to go from the raw sequence data to collection of molecular QTL in few easy-to-perform steps. QTLtools contains multiple methods to prepare the data, to discover proximal and distal molecular QTL and to finally integrate them with GWAS variants and functional annotations of the genome.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install qtltools

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install qtltools.

sudo apt -y install qtltools

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install qtltools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix qtltools_plotTrans.R command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.