Arlequin is very popular tool for population genetics and in recent version (3.5) it has version running on Linux (arlecore
, only computational core without GUI) as well as possibility to parse output using R statistical language. Those two features are described only briefly in official manual. I faced some issues when running Arlequin on Linux and parsing output using R. I'm describing here my solutions in case someone else would hava similar needs and problems.