diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/c/cairo/cairo-1.14.6-foss-2016a-GLib-2.48.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/c/cairo/cairo-1.14.6-foss-2016a-GLib-2.48.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bd37afb7a259
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/c/cairo/cairo-1.14.6-foss-2016a-GLib-2.48.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'cairo'
+version = '1.14.6'
+
+homepage = 'http://cairographics.org'
+description = """Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices.
+ Currently supported output targets include the X Window System (via both Xlib and XCB), Quartz, Win32, image buffers,
+ PostScript, PDF, and SVG file output. Experimental backends include OpenGL, BeOS, OS/2, and DirectFB"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+source_urls = ['http://cairographics.org/releases/']
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_XZ]
+
+glibver = '2.48.0'
+versionsuffix = '-GLib-%s' % glibver
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('bzip2', '1.0.6'),
+    ('zlib', '1.2.8'),
+    ('libpng', '1.6.21'),
+    ('freetype', '2.6.3', '-no-HarfBuzz'),
+    ('pixman', '0.34.0'),
+    ('fontconfig', '2.11.95', '-freetype-no-HarfBuzz'),
+    ('expat', '2.1.1'),
+    ('GLib', glibver, '-Python-2.7.11-libX11-1.6.3'),
+    ('libX11', '1.6.3'),
+    ('libxcb', '1.11.1'),
+    ('libXrender', '0.9.9'),
+    ('libXext', '1.3.3'),
+    ('libXau', '1.0.8'),
+    ('libXdmcp', '1.1.2'),
+]
+builddependencies = [
+    ('renderproto', '0.11'),
+    ('xproto', '7.0.28'),
+    ('xextproto', '7.3.0'),
+]
+
+# disable symbol lookup, which requires -lbfd, to avoid link issues with (non-PIC) libiberty.a provided by GCC
+configopts = "--enable-symbol-lookup=no --enable-gobject=yes --enable-svg=yes --enable-tee=yes "
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/cairo-trace', 'lib/cairo/libcairo-trace.so', 'lib/cairo/libcairo-trace.a',
+              'lib/libcairo.a', 'lib/libcairo-gobject.a', 'lib/libcairo-script-interpreter.a',
+              'lib/libcairo-gobject.so', 'lib/libcairo-script-interpreter.so', 'lib/libcairo.so'] +
+             ['include/cairo/cairo%s.h' % x for x in ['', '-deprecated', '-features', '-ft', '-gobject', '-pdf', '-ps',
+                                                      '-script', '-script-interpreter', '-svg', '-version', '-xcb',
+                                                      '-xlib', '-xlib-xrender']],
+    'dirs': ['lib/pkgconfig'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/fontconfig/fontconfig-2.11.95-foss-2016a-freetype-no-HarfBuzz.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/fontconfig/fontconfig-2.11.95-foss-2016a-freetype-no-HarfBuzz.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f4708632631d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/fontconfig/fontconfig-2.11.95-foss-2016a-freetype-no-HarfBuzz.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'fontconfig'
+version = '2.11.95'
+versionsuffix = '-freetype-no-HarfBuzz'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig'
+description = """Fontconfig is a library designed to provide system-wide font configuration, customization and
+application access."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+source_urls = ['http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/']
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('expat', '2.1.1'),
+    ('freetype', '2.6.3', '-no-HarfBuzz'),
+]
+
+configopts = '--disable-docs '
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/fontconfig/fontconfig-2.11.95-intel-2016a-freetype-no-HarfBuzz.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/fontconfig/fontconfig-2.11.95-intel-2016a-freetype-no-HarfBuzz.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7c5135dcee73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/fontconfig/fontconfig-2.11.95-intel-2016a-freetype-no-HarfBuzz.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'fontconfig'
+version = '2.11.95'
+versionsuffix = '-freetype-no-HarfBuzz'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig'
+description = """Fontconfig is a library designed to provide system-wide font configuration, customization and
+application access."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'intel', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+source_urls = ['http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/']
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('expat', '2.1.1'),
+    ('freetype', '2.6.3', '-no-HarfBuzz'),
+]
+
+configopts = '--disable-docs '
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/freetype/freetype-2.6.3-foss-2016a-no-HarfBuzz.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/freetype/freetype-2.6.3-foss-2016a-no-HarfBuzz.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..38353ae029d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/freetype/freetype-2.6.3-foss-2016a-no-HarfBuzz.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+name = 'freetype'
+version = '2.6.3'
+versionsuffix = '-no-HarfBuzz'
+
+# There is a circular dependency between freetype and HarfBuzz: 
+#   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/docs/INSTALL.UNIX#n85
+
+# As I don't know if/how we can do multi-pass builds in EasyBuild, this freetype excludes HarfBuzz
+
+homepage = 'http://freetype.org'
+description = """FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and
+ portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images). It can be used in graphics libraries, display
+ servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other products as well."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+source_urls = [GNU_SAVANNAH_SOURCE]
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
+
+dependencies = [('libpng', '1.6.21')]
+
+configopts = '--with-harfbuzz=no '
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/freetype-config', 'lib/libfreetype.a', 'lib/libfreetype.%s' % SHLIB_EXT,
+              'lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc'],
+    'dirs': ['include/freetype2'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/freetype/freetype-2.6.3-intel-2016a-no-HarfBuzz.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/freetype/freetype-2.6.3-intel-2016a-no-HarfBuzz.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3101cdaf9db3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/freetype/freetype-2.6.3-intel-2016a-no-HarfBuzz.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+name = 'freetype'
+version = '2.6.3'
+versionsuffix = '-no-HarfBuzz'
+
+# There is a circular dependency between freetype and HarfBuzz: 
+#   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/docs/INSTALL.UNIX#n85
+
+# As I don't know if/how we can do multi-pass builds in EasyBuild, this freetype excludes HarfBuzz
+
+homepage = 'http://freetype.org'
+description = """FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and
+ portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images). It can be used in graphics libraries, display
+ servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other products as well."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'intel', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+source_urls = [GNU_SAVANNAH_SOURCE]
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
+
+dependencies = [('libpng', '1.6.21')]
+
+configopts = '--with-harfbuzz=no '
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/freetype-config', 'lib/libfreetype.a', 'lib/libfreetype.%s' % SHLIB_EXT,
+              'lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc'],
+    'dirs': ['include/freetype2'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GDAL/GDAL-2.1.0-foss-2016a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GDAL/GDAL-2.1.0-foss-2016a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9d34f7413556
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GDAL/GDAL-2.1.0-foss-2016a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'GDAL'
+version = '2.1.0'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.gdal.org/'
+description = """GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style
+ Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model
+ to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful commandline utilities for
+ data translation and processing."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2016a'}
+toolchainopts = {'usempi': True}
+
+configopts = "--with-geotiff=internal "
+
+source_urls = ['http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/%(version)s/']
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_XZ]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('netCDF', '4.4.0'),
+    ('expat', '2.1.1'),
+    ('libxml2', '2.9.3'),
+    ('libffi', '3.2.1'),
+    ('zlib', '1.2.8'),
+    ('LibTIFF', '4.0.6'),
+    ('PCRE', '8.38'),
+    ('gnutls', '3.4.11'),
+    ('HDF5', '1.8.16'),
+    ('JasPer', '1.900.1'),
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['lib/libgdal.%s' % SHLIB_EXT, 'lib/libgdal.a'],
+    'dirs': ['bin', 'include']
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'data'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GDAL/GDAL-2.1.0-intel-2016a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GDAL/GDAL-2.1.0-intel-2016a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..797200842ba4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GDAL/GDAL-2.1.0-intel-2016a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'GDAL'
+version = '2.1.0'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.gdal.org/'
+description = """GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style
+ Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model
+ to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful commandline utilities for
+ data translation and processing."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'intel', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+configopts = "--with-geotiff=internal "
+
+source_urls = ['http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/%(version)s/']
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_XZ]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('netCDF', '4.4.0'),
+    ('expat', '2.1.1'),
+    ('libxml2', '2.9.3'),
+    ('zlib', '1.2.8'),
+    ('LibTIFF', '4.0.6'),
+    ('libffi', '3.2.1'),
+    ('PCRE', '8.38'),
+    ('gnutls', '3.4.11'),
+    ('HDF5', '1.8.16'),
+    ('JasPer', '1.900.1'),
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['lib/libgdal.%s' % SHLIB_EXT, 'lib/libgdal.a'],
+    'dirs': ['bin', 'include']
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'data'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GLib/GLib-2.48.0-foss-2016a-Python-2.7.11-libX11-1.6.3.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GLib/GLib-2.48.0-foss-2016a-Python-2.7.11-libX11-1.6.3.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fc31535f48c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GLib/GLib-2.48.0-foss-2016a-Python-2.7.11-libX11-1.6.3.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'GLib'
+version = '2.48.0'
+versionsuffix = '-Python-2.7.11-libX11-1.6.3'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.gtk.org/'
+description = """GLib is one of the base libraries of the GTK+ project"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2016a'}
+toolchainopts = {'optarch': True, 'pic': True}
+
+source_urls = [FTPGNOME_SOURCE]
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_XZ]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('libffi', '3.2.1'),
+    ('gettext', '0.19.7'),
+    ('libxml2', '2.9.3'),
+    ('PCRE', '8.38'),
+]
+
+builddependencies = [('Python', '2.7.11', '-libX11-1.6.3')]
+
+configopts = "--disable-maintainer-mode --disable-silent-rules --disable-libelf --enable-static --enable-shared --disable-systemtap"
+
+postinstallcmds = ["sed -i -e 's|#!.*python|#!/usr/bin/env python|' %(installdir)s/bin/*"]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['lib/libglib-%(version_major)s.0.a', 'lib/libglib-%%(version_major)s.0.%s' % SHLIB_EXT],
+    'dirs': ['bin', 'include'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GObject-Introspection/GObject-Introspection-1.48.0-foss-2016a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GObject-Introspection/GObject-Introspection-1.48.0-foss-2016a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..eb678a830026
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GObject-Introspection/GObject-Introspection-1.48.0-foss-2016a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'GObject-Introspection'
+version = '1.48.0'
+
+homepage = 'https://wiki.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection/'
+description = """GObject introspection is a middleware layer between C libraries
+ (using GObject) and language bindings. The C library can be scanned at
+ compile time and generate a metadata file, in addition to the actual
+ native C library. Then at runtime, language bindings can read this
+ metadata and automatically provide bindings to call into the C library."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+source_urls = [FTPGNOME_SOURCE]
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_XZ]
+
+glibver = '2.48.0'
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('Python', '2.7.11', '-libX11-1.6.3'),
+    ('GLib', glibver, '-Python-2.7.11-libX11-1.6.3'),
+    ('libffi', '3.2.1'),
+]
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('Autotools', '20150215'),
+    ('flex', '2.5.39'),
+    ('Bison', '3.0.4'),
+    ('cairo', '1.14.6', '-GLib-%s' % glibver),
+]
+
+preconfigopts = "env GI_SCANNER_DISABLE_CACHE=true "
+
+# avoid using hard-coded path to 'python' in shebang of scripts
+buildopts = "PYTHON=python"
+
+modextrapaths = {
+    'GI_TYPELIB_PATH': 'share',
+    'XDG_DATA_DIRS': 'share',
+}
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/g-ir-%s' % x for x in ['annotation-tool', 'compiler', 'generate', 'scanner']] +
+             ['lib/libgirepository-1.0.%s' % x for x in ['so', 'a']],
+    'dirs': ['include', 'share']
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'devel'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/gnutls/gnutls-3.4.11-intel-2016a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/gnutls/gnutls-3.4.11-intel-2016a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3ebdc4040347
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/gnutls/gnutls-3.4.11-intel-2016a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'gnutls'
+version = '3.4.11'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.gnutls.org/'
+description = """GnuTLS is a secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS
+ and DTLS protocols and technologies around them. It provides a simple
+ C language application programming interface (API) to access the secure
+ communications protocols as well as APIs to parse and write X.509, PKCS #12,
+ OpenPGP and other required structures. It is aimed to be portable
+ and efficient with focus on security and interoperability."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'intel', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+source_urls = ['ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/gcrypt/gnutls/v%(version_major_minor)s']
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_XZ]
+
+guilever = '1.8.8'
+guileshortver = '.'.join(guilever.split('.')[:2])
+dependencies = [
+    ('GMP', '6.1.0'),
+    ('nettle', '3.1.1'),
+    ('guile', guilever),
+    ('libtasn1', '4.7'),
+    ('libidn', '1.32'),
+    ('p11-kit', '0.23.2'),
+]
+
+configopts = "--with-guile-site-dir=$EBROOTGUILE --enable-openssl-compatibility "
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/%s' % x for x in ['certtool', 'crywrap', 'gnutls-cli', 'gnutls-cli-debug',
+                                     'gnutls-serv', 'ocsptool', 'psktool', 'srptool']] +
+             ['lib/libgnutls%s' % x for x in ['.%s' % SHLIB_EXT, 'xx.%s' % SHLIB_EXT, '-openssl.%s' % SHLIB_EXT]] +
+             ['lib/guile/%s/guile-gnutls-v-2.so' % guileshortver],
+    'dirs': ['include/gnutls'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'system'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/h/HarfBuzz/HarfBuzz-1.2.7-foss-2016a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/h/HarfBuzz/HarfBuzz-1.2.7-foss-2016a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..12b19e8bec13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/h/HarfBuzz/HarfBuzz-1.2.7-foss-2016a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# easybuild easyconfig
+
+name = 'HarfBuzz'
+version = '1.2.7'
+
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz'
+description = """HarfBuzz is an OpenType text shaping engine."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+source_urls = ['http://www.freedesktop.org/software/harfbuzz/release/']
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_BZ2]
+
+glibver = '2.48.0'
+dependencies = [
+    ('GLib', glibver, '-Python-2.7.11-libX11-1.6.3'),
+    ('cairo', '1.14.6', '-GLib-%s' % glibver),
+    ('freetype', '2.6.3', '-no-HarfBuzz'),
+    ('GObject-Introspection', '1.48.0')
+]
+
+configopts = "--enable-introspection=yes --with-gobject=yes --enable-static --enable-shared --with-cairo "
+
+modextrapaths = {
+    'GI_TYPELIB_PATH': 'share',
+    'XDG_DATA_DIRS': 'share',
+}
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['lib/libharfbuzz.%s' % SHLIB_EXT, 'bin/hb-view'],
+    'dirs': []
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/j/JasPer/JasPer-1.900.1-foss-2016a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/j/JasPer/JasPer-1.900.1-foss-2016a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..77a86b683148
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/j/JasPer/JasPer-1.900.1-foss-2016a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'JasPer'
+version = '1.900.1'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~frodo/jasper/'
+description = """The JasPer Project is an open-source initiative to provide a free
+ software-based reference implementation of the codec specified in the JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2016a'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True}
+
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_ZIP]
+source_urls = ['http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~frodo/jasper/software/']
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ["bin/jasper", "lib/libjasper.a"],
+    'dirs': ["include"],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/j/Java/Java-1.8.0_92.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/j/Java/Java-1.8.0_92.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..72fb7c3057a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/j/Java/Java-1.8.0_92.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+name = 'Java'
+version = '1.8.0_92'
+
+homepage = 'http://java.com/'
+description = """Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) lets you develop and deploy
+ Java applications on desktops and servers."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'dummy', 'version': 'dummy'}
+
+# download the tar.gz directly from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
+(vp, vs) = version.split('_')
+altver = '%su%s' % (vp.split('.')[1], vs)
+sources = ['jdk-%s-linux-x64.tar.gz' % altver]
+
+moduleclass = 'lang'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libXft/libXft-2.3.2-foss-2016a-fontconfig-2.11.95.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libXft/libXft-2.3.2-foss-2016a-fontconfig-2.11.95.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ac3c3d6de3fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libXft/libXft-2.3.2-foss-2016a-fontconfig-2.11.95.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'libXft'
+version = '2.3.2'
+versionsuffix = '-fontconfig-2.11.95'
+
+homepage = "http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xlibs"
+description = """X11 client-side library"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
+source_urls = [XORG_LIB_SOURCE]
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('kbproto', '1.0.7'),
+    ('renderproto', '0.11'),
+]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('libX11', '1.6.3'),
+    ('libXrender', '0.9.9'),
+    ('freetype', '2.6.3', '-no-HarfBuzz'),
+    ('fontconfig', '2.11.95', '-freetype-no-HarfBuzz'),
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['lib/libXft.a'],
+    'dirs': [],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/Pango/Pango-1.40.1-foss-2016a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/Pango/Pango-1.40.1-foss-2016a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..46d735c2ff28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/Pango/Pango-1.40.1-foss-2016a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'Pango'
+version = '1.40.1'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.pango.org/'
+description = """Pango is a library for laying out and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization.
+Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is needed, though most of the work on Pango so far has been done in the
+context of the GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the core of text and font handling for GTK+-2.x."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+source_urls = [FTPGNOME_SOURCE]
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_XZ]
+
+glibver = '2.48.0'
+dependencies = [
+    ('GLib', glibver, '-Python-2.7.11-libX11-1.6.3'),
+    ('cairo', '1.14.6', '-GLib-%s' % glibver),
+    ('HarfBuzz', '1.2.7'),
+    ('GObject-Introspection', '1.48.0'),
+    ('fontconfig', '2.11.95', '-freetype-no-HarfBuzz')
+]
+
+configopts = "--disable-silent-rules --enable-introspection=yes --enable-static --enable-shared "
+
+modextrapaths = {
+    'XDG_DATA_DIRS': 'share',
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/Python/Python-2.7.11-foss-2016a-fh1.eb.orig b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/Python/Python-2.7.11-foss-2016a-fh1.eb.orig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e6cd4146492f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/Python/Python-2.7.11-foss-2016a-fh1.eb.orig
@@ -0,0 +1,287 @@
+name = 'Python'
+version = '2.7.11'
+versionsuffix = '-fh1'
+
+homepage = 'http://python.org/'
+description = """Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems
+ more effectively."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2016a'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True, 'opt': True, 'optarch': True}
+
+numpyversion = '1.10.1'
+scipyversion = '0.16.1'
+
+source_urls = ['http://www.python.org/ftp/%(namelower)s/%(version)s/']
+sources = [SOURCE_TGZ]
+
+# python needs bzip2 to build the bz2 package
+dependencies = [
+    ('bzip2', '1.0.6'),
+    ('zlib', '1.2.8'),
+    ('libreadline', '6.3'),
+    ('ncurses', '6.0'),
+    ('SQLite', '3.9.2'),
+    ('Tk', '8.6.4', '-no-X11'),
+    ('GMP', '6.1.0'),
+    #   ('OpenSSL', '1.0.1q'),  # OS dependency should be preferred if the os version is more recent then this version, it's
+    #   nice to have an up to date openssl for security reasons
+]
+
+osdependencies = [('openssl-devel', 'libssl-dev', 'libopenssl-devel')]
+
+# order is important!
+# package versions updated May 28th 2015
+exts_list = [
+    ('setuptools', '18.7.1', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/'],
+    }),
+    ('pip', '7.1.2', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/'],
+    }),
+    ('nose', '1.3.7', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/n/nose/'],
+    }),
+    ('numpy', numpyversion, {
+        'source_urls': [('http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/%s' % numpyversion, 'download')],
+        'patches': ['numpy-1.8.0-mkl.patch'],
+    }),
+    ('scipy', scipyversion, {
+        'source_urls': [('http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipy/files/scipy/%s' % scipyversion, 'download')],
+    }),
+    ('blist', '1.3.6', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/b/blist/'],
+    }),
+    ('mpi4py', '1.3.1', {
+        'source_urls': ['http://bitbucket.org/mpi4py/mpi4py/downloads/'],
+    }),
+    ('paycheck', '1.0.2', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/paycheck/'],
+    }),
+    ('argparse', '1.4.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/argparse/'],
+    }),
+    ('pbr', '1.8.1', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pbr/'],
+    }),
+    ('lockfile', '0.12.2', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/l/lockfile/'],
+    }),
+    ('Cython', '0.23.4', {
+        'source_urls': ['http://www.cython.org/release/'],
+    }),
+    ('six', '1.10.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/six/'],
+    }),
+    ('dateutil', '2.4.2', {
+        'source_tmpl': 'python-%(name)s-%(version)s.tar.gz',
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/python-dateutil/'],
+    }),
+    ('deap', '1.0.2', {
+        'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s.post2.tar.gz',
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/deap/'],
+    }),
+    ('decorator', '4.0.4', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/decorator/'],
+    }),
+    ('arff', '2.1.0', {
+        'source_tmpl': 'liac-%(name)s-%(version)s.zip',
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/l/liac-arff/'],
+    }),
+    ('pycrypto', '2.6.1', {
+        'modulename': 'Crypto',
+        'source_urls': ['http://ftp.dlitz.net/pub/dlitz/crypto/pycrypto/'],
+    }),
+    ('ecdsa', '0.13', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/e/ecdsa/'],
+    }),
+    ('paramiko', '1.16.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/paramiko/'],
+    }),
+    ('pyparsing', '2.0.6', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pyparsing/'],
+    }),
+    ('netifaces', '0.10.4', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/n/netifaces'],
+    }),
+    ('netaddr', '0.7.18', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/n/netaddr'],
+    }),
+    ('funcsigs', '0.4', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/f/funcsigs'],
+    }),
+    ('mock', '1.3.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/m/mock'],
+    }),
+    ('pytz', '2015.7', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pytz'],
+    }),
+    ('pandas', '0.17.1', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pandas'],
+    }),
+    ('enum34', '1.1.2', {
+        'modulename': 'enum',
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/e/enum34'],
+    }),
+    ('bitstring', '3.1.3', {
+        # grab tarball from GitHub rather than PyPi since 3.1.3 release on PyPi disappeared;
+        # cfr. https://github.com/scott-griffiths/bitstring/issues/159
+        'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s.tar.gz',
+        'source_urls': ['https://github.com/scott-griffiths/bitstring/archive/'],
+    }),
+    ('virtualenv', '14.0.5', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv'],
+    }),
+    ('python-swiftclient', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/python-swiftclient'],
+    }),
+    ('python-keystoneclient', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/python-keystoneclient'],
+    }),
+    ('python-novaclient', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/python-novaclient'],
+    }),
+    ('flask', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/f/flask'],
+    }),
+    ('flask_wtf', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/f/flask_wtf'],
+    }),
+    ('flask_bootstrap', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/f/flask_bootstrap'],
+    }),
+    ('flask_appconfig', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/f/flask_appconfig'],
+    }),
+    ('flask_debug', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/f/flask_debug'],
+    }),
+    ('flask_nav', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/f/flask_nav'],
+    }),
+    ('flask_script', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/f/flask_script'],
+    }),
+    ('flask_sqalchemy', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/f/flask_sqalchemy'],
+    }),
+    ('flask_migrate', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/f/flask_migrate'],
+    }),
+    ('psycopg2', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/psycopg2'],
+    }),
+    ('pypandoc', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pypandoc'],
+    }),
+    ('pip', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip'],
+    }),
+    ('darkslide', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/darkslide'],
+    }),
+    ('watchdog', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/w/watchdog'],
+    }),
+    ('requests', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/requests'],
+    }),
+    ('pycurl', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pycurl'],
+    }),
+    ('markdown', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/m/markdown'],
+    }),
+    ('ipython', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/i/ipython'],
+    }),
+    ('pandas', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pandas'],
+    }),
+    ('sqlalchemy', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/sqlalchemy'],
+    }),
+    ('bokeh', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/b/bokeh'],
+    }),
+    ('nuitka', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/n/nuitka'],
+    }),
+    ('boto3', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/b/boto3'],
+    }),
+    ('debian', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/debian'],
+    }),
+    ('docutils', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/docutils'],
+    }),
+    ('drmaa', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/drmaa'],
+    }),
+    ('easygui', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/e/easygui'],
+    }),
+    ('freezer', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/f/freezer'],
+    }),
+    ('github3', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/g/github3'],
+    }),
+    ('google', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/g/google'],
+    }),
+    ('h5py', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/h/h5py'],
+    }),
+    ('html5lib', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/h/html5lib'],
+    }),
+    ('ldap3', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/l/ldap3'],
+    }),
+    ('mako', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/m/mako'],
+    }),
+    ('matplotlib', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/m/matplotlib'],
+    }),
+    ('mincemeat.py', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/m/mincemeat.py'],
+    }),
+    ('mpi4py', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/m/mpi4py'],
+    }),
+    ('npyscreen', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/n/npyscreen'],
+    }),
+    ('nuitka', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/n/nuitka'],
+    }),
+    ('oauth', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/o/oauth'],
+    }),
+    ('pam.py', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pam.py'],
+    }),
+    ('paramiko', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/paramiko'],
+    }),
+    ('pymongo', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pymongo'],
+    }),
+    ('PyMySQL', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/PyMySQL'],
+    }),
+    ('pymssql', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pymssql'],
+    }),
+    ('urwid', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/u/urwid'],
+    }),
+    ('yaml', '0.0.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/y/yaml'],
+    }),
+]
+
+moduleclass = 'lang'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/Python/Python-2.7.11-foss-2016a-libX11-1.6.3.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/Python/Python-2.7.11-foss-2016a-libX11-1.6.3.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..50f9eb76f8c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/Python/Python-2.7.11-foss-2016a-libX11-1.6.3.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+name = 'Python'
+version = '2.7.11'
+versionsuffix = '-libX11-1.6.3'
+
+homepage = 'http://python.org/'
+description = """Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems
+ more effectively."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2016a'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True, 'opt': True, 'optarch': True}
+
+numpyversion = '1.10.1'
+scipyversion = '0.16.1'
+
+source_urls = ['http://www.python.org/ftp/%(namelower)s/%(version)s/']
+sources = [SOURCE_TGZ]
+
+# python needs bzip2 to build the bz2 package
+dependencies = [
+    ('bzip2', '1.0.6'),
+    ('zlib', '1.2.8'),
+    ('libreadline', '6.3'),
+    ('ncurses', '6.0'),
+    ('SQLite', '3.9.2', '-Tcl-8.6.5'),
+    ('Tk', '8.6.5', '-libX11-1.6.3'),
+    ('GMP', '6.1.0'),
+    #   ('OpenSSL', '1.0.1q'),  # OS dependency should be preferred if the os version is more recent then this version, it's
+    #   nice to have an up to date openssl for security reasons
+]
+
+osdependencies = [('openssl-devel', 'libssl-dev', 'libopenssl-devel')]
+
+# order is important!
+# package versions updated May 28th 2015
+exts_list = [
+    ('setuptools', '18.7.1', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/'],
+    }),
+    ('pip', '7.1.2', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/'],
+    }),
+    ('nose', '1.3.7', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/n/nose/'],
+    }),
+    ('numpy', numpyversion, {
+        'source_urls': [('http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/%s' % numpyversion, 'download')],
+        'patches': ['numpy-1.8.0-mkl.patch'],
+    }),
+    ('scipy', scipyversion, {
+        'source_urls': [('http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipy/files/scipy/%s' % scipyversion, 'download')],
+    }),
+    ('blist', '1.3.6', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/b/blist/'],
+    }),
+    ('mpi4py', '1.3.1', {
+        'source_urls': ['http://bitbucket.org/mpi4py/mpi4py/downloads/'],
+    }),
+    ('paycheck', '1.0.2', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/paycheck/'],
+    }),
+    ('argparse', '1.4.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/argparse/'],
+    }),
+    ('pbr', '1.8.1', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pbr/'],
+    }),
+    ('lockfile', '0.12.2', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/l/lockfile/'],
+    }),
+    ('Cython', '0.23.4', {
+        'source_urls': ['http://www.cython.org/release/'],
+    }),
+    ('six', '1.10.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/six/'],
+    }),
+    ('dateutil', '2.4.2', {
+        'source_tmpl': 'python-%(name)s-%(version)s.tar.gz',
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/python-dateutil/'],
+    }),
+    ('deap', '1.0.2', {
+        'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s.post2.tar.gz',
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/deap/'],
+    }),
+    ('decorator', '4.0.4', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/decorator/'],
+    }),
+    ('arff', '2.1.0', {
+        'source_tmpl': 'liac-%(name)s-%(version)s.zip',
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/l/liac-arff/'],
+    }),
+    ('pycrypto', '2.6.1', {
+        'modulename': 'Crypto',
+        'source_urls': ['http://ftp.dlitz.net/pub/dlitz/crypto/pycrypto/'],
+    }),
+    ('ecdsa', '0.13', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/e/ecdsa/'],
+    }),
+    ('paramiko', '1.16.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/paramiko/'],
+    }),
+    ('pyparsing', '2.0.6', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pyparsing/'],
+    }),
+    ('netifaces', '0.10.4', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/n/netifaces'],
+    }),
+    ('netaddr', '0.7.18', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/n/netaddr'],
+    }),
+    ('funcsigs', '0.4', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/f/funcsigs'],
+    }),
+    ('mock', '1.3.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/m/mock'],
+    }),
+    ('pytz', '2015.7', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pytz'],
+    }),
+    ('pandas', '0.17.1', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pandas'],
+    }),
+    ('enum34', '1.1.2', {
+        'modulename': 'enum',
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/e/enum34'],
+    }),
+    ('bitstring', '3.1.3', {
+        # grab tarball from GitHub rather than PyPi since 3.1.3 release on PyPi disappeared;
+        # cfr. https://github.com/scott-griffiths/bitstring/issues/159
+        'source_tmpl': '%(name)s-%(version)s.tar.gz',
+        'source_urls': ['https://github.com/scott-griffiths/bitstring/archive/'],
+    }),
+    ('virtualenv', '14.0.5', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv'],
+    }),
+]
+
+moduleclass = 'lang'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/Python/Python-2.7.11-intel-2016a-libX11-1.6.3.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/Python/Python-2.7.11-intel-2016a-libX11-1.6.3.eb
index 8b707bfd80fa..db3bb579d58f 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/Python/Python-2.7.11-intel-2016a-libX11-1.6.3.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/Python/Python-2.7.11-intel-2016a-libX11-1.6.3.eb
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ dependencies = [
     ('zlib', '1.2.8'),
     ('libreadline', '6.3'),
     ('ncurses', '6.0'),
-    ('SQLite', '3.9.2'),
-    ('Tk', '8.6.4', versionsuffix),
+    ('SQLite', '3.9.2', '-Tcl-8.6.5'),
+    ('Tk', '8.6.5', '-libX11-1.6.3'),
     ('GMP', '6.1.0'),
     #   ('OpenSSL', '1.0.1q'),  # OS dependency should be preferred if the os version is more recent then this version, it's
     #   nice to have an up to date openssl for security reasons
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/R/R-3.3.0-foss-2016a-bare.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/R/R-3.3.0-foss-2016a-bare.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d9306c369d84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/R/R-3.3.0-foss-2016a-bare.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+name = 'R'
+version = '3.3.0'
+versionsuffix = '-bare'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.r-project.org/'
+description = """R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
+source_urls = ['http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/base/R-%(version_major)s']
+
+# point R to BLAS and LAPACK
+preconfigopts = 'BLAS_LIBS="$LIBBLAS" LAPACK_LIBS="$LIBLAPACK"'
+
+# build with lapack and blas
+configopts = '--with-lapack --with-blas '
+
+# build with pic
+configopts += ' --with-pic '
+
+# build with threads
+configopts += ' --enable-threads '
+
+# build with shlib
+configopts += ' --enable-R-shlib '
+
+# build with X
+configopts += ' --with-x=yes '
+
+# build with Tcl/Tk
+configopts += ' --with-tcltk=yes '
+
+# help finding configs
+configopts += ' --with-tcl-config=$EBROOTTCL/lib/tclConfig.sh --with-tk-config=$EBROOTTK/lib/tkConfig.sh '
+
+# Enable graphics capabilities for plotting.
+configopts += ' --with-cairo --with-libpng --with-jpeglib --with-libtiff '
+
+# some recommended packages may fail in a parallel build (e.g. Matrix), and we're installing them anyway below
+configopts += ' --with-recommended-packages=no'
+ 
+osdependencies = [('openssl-devel', 'libssl-dev', 'libopenssl-devel', 'libicu-dev', 'libicu-devel')]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('libreadline', '6.3'),
+    #('ncurses', '6.0'),
+    ('libpng', '1.6.21'),  # for plotting in R
+    ('libjpeg-turbo', '1.4.2'),  # for plottting in R
+    ('LibTIFF', '4.0.6'),   # rgdal
+    ('Java', '1.8.0_92', '', True),  # Java bindings are built if Java is found, might as well provide it
+    ('Tcl', '8.6.5'),  # for tcltk
+    ('Tk', '8.6.5', '-libX11-1.6.3'),  # for tcltk
+    ('cURL', '7.47.0'),  # for RCurl
+    ('libxml2', '2.9.3'),  # for XML
+    ('GDAL', '2.1.0'),  # for rgdal
+    ('PROJ', '4.9.2'), # for rgdal
+    ('libX11', '1.6.3'),  # for X11
+    ('libXt', '1.1.5'),  # for X11
+    ('Pango', '1.40.1'),
+    ('cairo', '1.14.6', '-GLib-2.48.0'),
+    ('PCRE', '8.38'),
+]
+
+name_tmpl = '%(name)s_%(version)s.tar.gz'
+ext_options = {
+    'source_urls': [
+        'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/%(name)s',  # package archive
+        'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/',  # current version of packages
+        'http://cran.freestatistics.org/src/contrib',  # mirror alternative for current packages
+    ],
+    'source_tmpl': name_tmpl,
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'lang'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/R/R-3.3.0-foss-2016a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/R/R-3.3.0-foss-2016a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4b5e1964c9e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/R/R-3.3.0-foss-2016a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,464 @@
+name = 'R'
+version = '3.3.0'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.r-project.org/'
+description = """R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
+source_urls = ['http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/base/R-%(version_major)s']
+
+preconfigopts = 'BLAS_LIBS="$LIBBLAS" LAPACK_LIBS="$LIBLAPACK"'
+configopts = '--with-lapack --with-blas --with-pic --enable-threads --enable-R-shlib --with-tcltk --with-x '
+# enabling Tcl/Tk
+configopts += ' --with-tcl-config=$EBROOTTCL/lib/tclConfig.sh --with-tk-config=$EBROOTTK/lib/tkConfig.sh '
+# Enable graphics capabilities for plotting.
+configopts += ' --with-cairo --with-libpng --with-jpeglib --with-libtiff '
+# some recommended packages may fail in a parallel build (e.g. Matrix), and we're installing them anyway below
+configopts += ' --with-recommended-packages=no'
+ 
+osdependencies = [('openssl-devel', 'libssl-dev', 'libopenssl-devel')]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('libreadline', '6.3'),
+    ('libpng', '1.6.21'),  # for plotting in R
+    ('libjpeg-turbo', '1.4.2'),  # for plottting in R
+    ('LibTIFF', '4.0.6'),   # Cairo and rgdal
+    ('Java', '1.8.0_92', '', True),  # Java bindings are built if Java is found, might as well provide it
+    ('Tcl', '8.6.5'),  # for tcltk
+    ('Tk', '8.6.5', '-libX11-1.6.3'),  # for tcltk
+    ('cURL', '7.47.0'),  # for RCurl
+    ('libxml2', '2.9.3'),  # for XML
+    ('GDAL', '2.1.0'),  # for rgdal
+    ('PROJ', '4.9.2'), # for rgdal
+    ('libX11', '1.6.3'),  # for X11
+    ('libXt', '1.1.5'),  # for X11
+    ('Pango', '1.40.1'),
+    ('cairo', '1.14.6', '-GLib-2.48.0'),
+    ('PCRE', '8.38'),
+]
+
+name_tmpl = '%(name)s_%(version)s.tar.gz'
+ext_options = {
+    'source_urls': [
+        'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/%(name)s',  # package archive
+        'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/',  # current version of packages
+        'http://cran.freestatistics.org/src/contrib',  # mirror alternative for current packages
+    ],
+    'source_tmpl': name_tmpl,
+}
+
+
+# !! order of packages is important !!
+# package versions updated May 26 2016
+exts_list = [
+    # default libraries, only here to sanity check their presence
+    'base',
+    'datasets',
+    'graphics',
+    'grDevices',
+    'grid',
+    'methods',
+    'parallel',
+    'splines',
+    'stats',
+    'stats4',
+    'tools',
+    'utils',
+    # non-standard libraries, should be specified with fixed versions!
+    ('Rmpi', '0.6-5', ext_options),
+    ('abind', '1.4-3', ext_options),
+    ('magic', '1.5-6', ext_options),
+    ('geometry', '0.3-6', ext_options),
+    ('bit', '1.1-12', ext_options),
+    ('filehash', '2.3', ext_options),
+    ('ff', '2.2-13', ext_options),
+    ('bnlearn', '4.0', ext_options),
+    ('bootstrap', '2015.2', ext_options),
+    ('combinat', '0.0-8', ext_options),
+    ('deal', '1.2-37', ext_options),
+    ('fdrtool', '1.2.15', ext_options),
+    ('formatR', '1.4', ext_options),
+    ('gtools', '3.5.0', ext_options),
+    ('gdata', '2.17.0', ext_options),
+    ('GSA', '1.03', ext_options),
+    ('highr', '0.6', ext_options),
+    ('infotheo', '1.2.0', ext_options),
+    ('lars', '1.2', ext_options),
+    ('lazy', '1.2-15', ext_options),
+    ('kernlab', '0.9-24', ext_options),
+    ('mime', '0.4', ext_options),
+    ('markdown', '0.7.7', ext_options),
+    ('mlbench', '2.1-1', ext_options),
+    ('NLP', '0.1-9', ext_options),
+    ('mclust', '5.2', ext_options),
+    ('RANN', '2.5', ext_options),
+    ('rmeta', '2.16', ext_options),
+    ('segmented', '0.5-1.4', ext_options),
+    ('som', '0.3-5', ext_options),
+    ('SuppDists', '1.1-9.2', ext_options),
+    ('stabledist', '0.7-0', ext_options),
+    ('survivalROC', '1.0.3', ext_options),
+    ('pspline', '1.0-17', ext_options),
+    ('timeDate', '3012.100', ext_options),
+    ('longmemo', '1.0-0', ext_options),
+    ('ADGofTest', '0.3', ext_options),
+    ('ade4', '1.7-4', ext_options),
+    ('AlgDesign', '1.1-7.3', ext_options),
+    ('base64enc', '0.1-3', ext_options),
+    ('BH', '1.60.0-2', ext_options),
+    ('brew', '1.0-6', ext_options),
+    ('Brobdingnag', '1.2-4', ext_options),
+    ('corpcor', '1.6.8', ext_options),
+    ('longitudinal', '1.1.12', ext_options),
+    ('stringi', '1.0-1', ext_options),
+    ('backports', '1.0.2', ext_options),
+    ('checkmate', '1.7.4', ext_options),
+    ('cubature', '1.1-2', ext_options),
+    ('DEoptimR', '1.0-4', ext_options),
+    ('digest', '0.6.9', ext_options),
+    ('fastmatch', '1.0-4', ext_options),
+    ('ffbase', '0.12.3', ext_options),
+    ('iterators', '1.0.8', ext_options),
+    ('maps', '3.1.0', ext_options),
+    ('nnls', '1.4', ext_options),
+    ('sendmailR', '1.2-1', ext_options),
+    ('spam', '1.3-0', ext_options),
+    ('subplex', '1.1-6', ext_options),
+    ('magrittr', '1.5', ext_options),
+    ('stringr', '1.0.0', ext_options),
+    ('evaluate', '0.9', ext_options),
+    ('logspline', '2.1.9', ext_options),
+    ('ncbit', '2013.03.29', ext_options),
+    ('permute', '0.9-0', ext_options),
+    ('plotrix', '3.6-2', ext_options),
+    ('randomForest', '4.6-12', ext_options),
+    ('scatterplot3d', '0.3-37', ext_options),
+    ('SparseM', '1.7', ext_options),
+    ('tripack', '1.3-7', ext_options),
+    ('irace', '1.07', ext_options),
+    ('rJava', '0.9-8', ext_options),
+    ('lattice', '0.20-33', ext_options),
+    ('RColorBrewer', '1.1-2', ext_options),
+    ('latticeExtra', '0.6-28', ext_options),
+    ('Matrix', '1.2-6', ext_options),
+    ('png', '0.1-7', ext_options),
+    ('Rcpp', '0.12.5', ext_options),
+    ('RcppArmadillo', '0.6.700.6.0', ext_options),
+    ('plyr', '1.8.3', ext_options),
+    ('pROC', '1.8', ext_options),
+    ('quadprog', '1.5-5', ext_options),
+    ('BB', '2014.10-1', ext_options),
+    ('BBmisc', '1.9', ext_options),
+    ('fail', '1.3', ext_options),
+    ('rlecuyer', '0.3-4', ext_options),
+    ('snow', '0.4-1', ext_options),
+    ('MASS', '7.3-45', ext_options),
+    ('tree', '1.0-37', ext_options),
+    ('pls', '2.5-0', ext_options),
+    ('class', '7.3-14', ext_options),
+    ('e1071', '1.6-7', ext_options),
+    ('nnet', '7.3-12', ext_options),
+    ('nlme', '3.1-128', ext_options),
+    ('minqa', '1.2.4', ext_options),
+    ('RcppEigen', '0.3.2.8.1', ext_options),
+    ('MatrixModels', '0.4-1', ext_options),
+    ('quantreg', '5.24', ext_options),
+    ('mgcv', '1.8-12', ext_options),
+    ('colorspace', '1.2-6', ext_options),
+    ('robustbase', '0.92-5', ext_options),
+    ('sp', '1.2-3', ext_options),
+    ('zoo', '1.7-13', ext_options),
+    ('lmtest', '0.9-34', ext_options),
+    ('vcd', '1.4-1', ext_options),
+    ('snowfall', '1.84-6.1', ext_options),
+    ('rpart', '4.1-10', ext_options),
+    ('survival', '2.39-4', ext_options),
+    ('mice', '2.25', ext_options),
+    ('urca', '1.2-9', ext_options),
+    ('fracdiff', '1.4-2', ext_options),
+    ('logistf', '1.21', ext_options), 
+    ('akima', '0.5-12', ext_options),
+    ('bitops', '1.0-6', ext_options),
+    ('boot', '1.3-18', ext_options),
+    ('mixtools', '1.0.4', ext_options),
+    ('cluster', '2.0.4', ext_options),
+    ('gclus', '1.3.1', ext_options),
+    ('coda', '0.18-1', ext_options),
+    ('codetools', '0.2-14', ext_options),
+    ('foreach', '1.4.3', ext_options),
+    ('doMC', '1.3.4', ext_options),
+    ('DBI', '0.4-1', ext_options),
+    ('foreign', '0.8-66', ext_options),
+    ('gam', '1.12', ext_options),
+    ('gamlss.data', '4.3-4', ext_options),
+    ('gamlss.dist', '4.3-6', ext_options),
+    ('hwriter', '1.3.2', ext_options),
+    ('KernSmooth', '2.23-15', ext_options),
+    ('xts', '0.9-7', ext_options),
+    ('TTR', '0.23-1', ext_options),
+    ('quantmod', '0.4-5', ext_options),
+    ('mnormt', '1.5-4', ext_options),
+    ('mvtnorm', '1.0-5', ext_options),
+    ('pcaPP', '1.9-60', ext_options),
+    ('numDeriv', '2014.2-1', ext_options),
+    ('lava', '1.4.3', ext_options),
+    ('prodlim', '1.5.7', ext_options),
+    ('pscl', '1.4.9', ext_options),
+    ('RSQLite', '1.0.0', ext_options),
+    ('BatchJobs', '1.6', ext_options),
+    ('sandwich', '2.3-4', ext_options),
+    ('sfsmisc', '1.1-0', ext_options),
+    ('spatial', '7.3-11', ext_options),
+    ('VGAM', '1.0-1', ext_options),
+    ('waveslim', '1.7.5', ext_options),
+    ('xtable', '1.8-2', ext_options),
+    ('profileModel', '0.5-9', ext_options),
+    ('brglm', '0.5-9', ext_options),
+    ('deSolve', '1.13', ext_options),
+    ('tseriesChaos', '0.1-13', ext_options),
+    ('tseries', '0.10-35', ext_options),
+    ('fastICA', '1.2-0', ext_options),
+    ('R.methodsS3', '1.7.1', ext_options),
+    ('R.oo', '1.20.0', ext_options),
+    ('cgdsr', '1.2.5', ext_options),
+    ('R.utils', '2.3.0', ext_options),
+    ('R.matlab', '3.5.1', ext_options),
+    ('gbm', '2.1.1', ext_options),
+    ('dichromat', '2.0-0', ext_options),
+    ('Formula', '1.2-1', ext_options),
+    ('acepack', '1.3-3.3', ext_options),
+    ('reshape2', '1.4.1', ext_options),
+    ('gtable', '0.2.0', ext_options),
+    ('munsell', '0.4.3', ext_options),
+    ('labeling', '0.3', ext_options),
+    ('scales', '0.4.0', ext_options),
+    ('proto', '0.3-10', ext_options),
+    ('ggplot2', '2.1.0', ext_options),
+    ('gridExtra', '2.2.1', ext_options),
+    ('chron', '2.3-47', ext_options),
+    ('data.table', '1.9.6', ext_options),
+    ('Hmisc', '3.17-4', ext_options),
+    ('fastcluster', '1.1.20', ext_options),
+    ('registry', '0.3', ext_options),
+    ('pkgmaker', '0.22', ext_options),
+    ('rngtools', '1.2.4', ext_options),
+    ('doParallel', '1.0.10', ext_options),
+    ('gridBase', '0.4-7', ext_options),
+    ('NMF', '0.20.6', ext_options),
+    ('irlba', '2.0.0', ext_options),
+    ('igraph', '1.0.1', ext_options),
+    ('GeneNet', '1.2.13', ext_options),
+    ('ape', '3.5', ext_options),
+    ('htmltools', '0.3.5', ext_options),
+    ('RJSONIO', '1.3-0', ext_options),
+    ('caTools', '1.17.1', ext_options),
+    ('gplots', '3.0.1', ext_options),
+    ('ROCR', '1.0-7', ext_options),
+    ('httpuv', '1.3.3', ext_options),
+    ('R6', '2.1.2', ext_options),
+    ('jsonlite', '0.9.20', ext_options),
+    ('rjson', '0.2.15', ext_options),
+    ('shiny', '0.13.2', ext_options),
+    ('seqinr', '3.1-3', ext_options),
+    ('LearnBayes', '2.15', ext_options),
+    ('deldir', '0.1-12', ext_options),
+    ('gmodels', '2.16.2', ext_options),
+    ('spdep', '0.6-4', ext_options),
+    ('assertthat', '0.1', ext_options),
+    ('lazyeval', '0.1.10', ext_options),
+    ('dplyr', '0.4.3', ext_options),
+    ('vegan', '2.3-5', ext_options),
+    ('adegenet', '2.0.1', ext_options),
+    ('rncl', '0.6.0', ext_options),
+    ('XML', '3.98-1.4', ext_options),
+    ('memoise', '1.0.0', ext_options),
+    ('crayon', '1.3.1', ext_options),
+    ('praise', '1.0.0', ext_options),
+    ('testthat', '1.0.2', ext_options),
+    ('yaml', '2.1.13', ext_options),
+    ('knitr', '1.13', ext_options),
+    ('rmarkdown', '0.9.6', ext_options),
+    ('curl', '0.9.7', ext_options),
+    ('openssl', '0.9.4', ext_options),
+    ('httr', '1.1.0', ext_options),
+    ('reshape', '0.8.5', ext_options),
+    ('xml2', '0.1.2', ext_options),
+    ('bold', '0.3.5', ext_options),
+    ('rredlist', '0.1.0', ext_options),
+    ('rentrez', '1.0.2', ext_options),
+    ('rotl', '3.0.0', ext_options),
+    ('taxize', '0.7.6', ext_options),
+    ('tidyr', '0.4.1', ext_options),
+    ('uuid', '0.1-2', ext_options),
+    ('RNeXML', '2.0.6', ext_options),
+    ('phylobase', '0.8.2', ext_options),
+    ('adephylo', '1.1-6', ext_options),
+    ('animation', '2.4', ext_options),
+    ('bigmemory.sri', '0.1.3', ext_options),
+    ('bigmemory', '4.5.19', ext_options),
+    ('calibrate', '1.7.2', ext_options),
+    ('clusterGeneration', '1.3.4', ext_options),
+    ('raster', '2.5-2', ext_options),
+    ('dismo', '1.0-15', ext_options),
+    ('expm', '0.999-0', ext_options),
+    ('extrafontdb', '1.0', ext_options),
+    ('Rttf2pt1', '1.3.4', ext_options),
+    ('extrafont', '0.17', ext_options),
+    ('fields', '8.4-1', ext_options),
+    ('shapefiles', '0.7', ext_options),
+    ('fossil', '0.3.7', ext_options),
+    ('geiger', '2.0.6', ext_options),
+    ('glmnet', '2.0-5', ext_options),
+    ('rgl', '0.95.1441', ext_options),
+    ('labdsv', '1.8-0', ext_options),
+    ('stabs', '0.5-1', ext_options),
+    ('strucchange', '1.5-1', ext_options),
+    ('modeltools', '0.2-21', ext_options),
+    ('TH.data', '1.0-7', ext_options),
+    ('multcomp', '1.4-5', ext_options),
+    ('coin', '1.1-2', ext_options),
+    ('party', '1.0-25', ext_options),
+    ('mboost', '2.6-0', ext_options),
+    ('msm', '1.6.1', ext_options),
+    ('nor1mix', '1.2-1', ext_options),
+    ('np', '0.60-2', ext_options),
+    ('polynom', '1.3-8', ext_options),
+    ('polspline', '1.1.12', ext_options),
+    ('rms', '4.5-0', ext_options),
+    ('RWekajars', '3.9.0-1', ext_options),
+    ('RWeka', '0.4-27', ext_options),
+    ('slam', '0.1-34', ext_options),
+    ('tm', '0.6-2', ext_options),
+    ('TraMineR', '1.8-11.1', ext_options),
+    ('chemometrics', '1.3.9', ext_options),
+    ('FNN', '1.1', ext_options),
+    ('ipred', '0.9-5', ext_options),
+    ('statmod', '1.4.24', ext_options),
+    ('miscTools', '0.6-16', ext_options),
+    ('maxLik', '1.3-4', ext_options),
+    ('mlogit', '0.2-4', ext_options),
+    ('getopt', '1.20.0', ext_options),
+    ('gsalib', '2.1', ext_options),
+    ('optparse', '1.3.2', ext_options),
+    ('klaR', '0.6-12', ext_options),
+    ('neuRosim', '0.2-12', ext_options),
+    ('locfit', '1.5-9.1', ext_options),
+    ('GGally', '1.0.1', ext_options),
+    ('beanplot', '1.2', ext_options),
+    ('clValid', '0.6-6', ext_options),
+    ('matrixStats', '0.50.2', ext_options),
+    ('DiscriMiner', '0.1-29', ext_options),
+    ('ellipse', '0.3-8', ext_options),
+    ('leaps', '2.9', ext_options),
+    ('nloptr', '1.0.4', ext_options),
+    ('lme4', '1.1-12', ext_options),
+    ('pbkrtest', '0.4-6', ext_options),
+    ('car', '2.1-2', ext_options),
+    ('flashClust', '1.01-2', ext_options),
+    ('FactoMineR', '1.33', ext_options),
+    ('flexclust', '1.3-4', ext_options),
+    ('flexmix', '2.3-13', ext_options),
+    ('prabclus', '2.2-6', ext_options),
+    ('diptest', '0.75-7', ext_options),
+    ('trimcluster', '0.1-2', ext_options),
+    ('fpc', '2.1-10', ext_options),
+    ('BiasedUrn', '1.07', ext_options),
+    ('TeachingDemos', '2.10', ext_options),
+    ('kohonen', '2.0.19', ext_options),
+    ('base64', '2.0', ext_options),
+    ('doRNG', '1.6', ext_options),
+    ('nleqslv', '3.0.1', ext_options),
+    ('RGCCA', '2.0', ext_options),
+    ('pheatmap', '1.0.8', ext_options),
+    ('openxlsx', '3.0.0', ext_options),
+    ('pvclust', '2.0-0', ext_options),
+    ('RCircos', '1.1.3', ext_options),
+    ('lambda.r', '1.1.7', ext_options),
+    ('futile.options', '1.0.0', ext_options),
+    ('futile.logger', '1.4.1', ext_options),
+    ('VennDiagram', '1.6.17', ext_options),
+    ('xlsxjars', '0.6.1', ext_options),
+    ('xlsx', '0.5.7', ext_options),
+    ('forecast', '7.1', ext_options),
+    ('fma', '2.01', ext_options),
+    ('expsmooth', '2.3', ext_options),
+    ('fpp', '0.5', ext_options),
+    ('maptools', '0.8-39', ext_options),
+    ('tensor', '1.5', ext_options),
+    ('polyclip', '1.5-6', ext_options),
+    ('goftest', '1.0-3', ext_options),
+    ('spatstat', '1.45-2', ext_options),
+    ('rgdal', '1.1-10', ext_options),
+    ('gdalUtils', '2.0.1.7', ext_options),
+    ('pracma', '1.8.8', ext_options),
+    ('RCurl', '1.95-4.8', ext_options),
+    ('bio3d', '2.2-4', ext_options),
+    ('AUC', '0.3.0', ext_options),
+    ('interpretR', '0.2.4', ext_options),
+    ('cvAUC', '1.1.0', ext_options),
+    ('SuperLearner', '2.0-19', ext_options),
+    ('lpSolve', '5.6.13', ext_options),
+    ('mediation', '4.4.5', ext_options),
+    ('caret', '6.0-68', ext_options),
+    ('adabag', '4.1', ext_options),
+    ('parallelMap', '1.3', ext_options),
+    ('ParamHelpers', '1.7', ext_options),
+    ('ggvis', '0.4.2', ext_options),
+    ('mlr', '2.8', ext_options),
+    ('unbalanced', '2.0', ext_options),
+    ('RSNNS', '0.4-7', ext_options),
+    ('abc.data', '1.0', ext_options),
+    ('abc', '2.1', ext_options),
+    ('lhs', '0.13', ext_options),
+    ('tensorA', '0.36', ext_options),
+    ('EasyABC', '1.5', ext_options),
+    ('shape', '1.4.2', ext_options),
+    ('whisker', '0.3-2', ext_options),
+    ('rstudioapi', '0.5', ext_options),
+    ('roxygen2', '5.0.1', ext_options),
+    ('git2r', '0.15.0', ext_options),
+    ('rversions', '1.0.2', ext_options),
+    ('withr', '1.0.1', ext_options),
+    ('devtools', '1.11.1', ext_options),
+    ('Rook', '1.1-1', ext_options),
+    ('Cairo', '1.5-9', ext_options),
+    ('RMTstat', '0.3', ext_options),
+    ('Lmoments', '1.2-3', ext_options),
+    ('distillery', '1.0-2', ext_options),
+    ('extRemes', '2.0-7', ext_options),
+    ('pixmap', '0.4-11', ext_options),
+    ('tkrplot', '0.0-23', ext_options),
+    ('misc3d', '0.8-4', ext_options),
+    ('multicool', '0.1-9', ext_options),
+    ('ks', '1.10.3', ext_options),
+    ('logcondens', '2.1.4', ext_options),
+    ('Iso', '0.0-17', ext_options),
+    ('penalized', '0.9-46', ext_options),
+    ('clusterRepro', '0.5-1.1', ext_options),
+    ('randomForestSRC', '2.2.0', ext_options),
+    ('sm', '2.2-5.4', ext_options),
+    ('psych', '1.6.4', ext_options),
+    ('pbivnorm', '0.6.0', ext_options),
+    ('lavaan', '0.5-20', ext_options),
+    ('matrixcalc', '1.0-3', ext_options),
+    ('arm', '1.8-6', ext_options),
+    ('mi', '1.0', ext_options),
+    ('htmlwidgets', '0.6', ext_options),
+    ('visNetwork', '1.0.0', ext_options),
+    ('DiagrammeR', '0.8.2', ext_options),
+    ('sem', '3.1-7', ext_options),
+    ('jpeg', '0.1-8', ext_options),
+    ('sna', '2.3-2', ext_options),
+    ('glasso', '1.8', ext_options),
+    ('huge', '1.2.7', ext_options),
+    ('d3Network', '0.5.2.1', ext_options),
+    ('ggm', '2.3', ext_options),
+    ('qgraph', '1.3.3', ext_options),
+    ('diveRsity', '1.9.89', ext_options),
+    ('doSNOW', '1.0.14', ext_options),
+    ('phangorn', '2.0.3', ext_options),
+]
+
+moduleclass = 'lang'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/R/R-3.3.0-intel-2016a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/R/R-3.3.0-intel-2016a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5abd864c8027
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/R/R-3.3.0-intel-2016a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,464 @@
+name = 'R'
+version = '3.3.0'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.r-project.org/'
+description = """R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'intel', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
+source_urls = ['http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/base/R-%(version_major)s']
+
+preconfigopts = 'BLAS_LIBS="$LIBBLAS" LAPACK_LIBS="$LIBLAPACK"'
+configopts = '--with-lapack --with-blas --with-pic --enable-threads --enable-R-shlib --with-tcltk --with-x '
+# enabling Tcl/Tk
+configopts += ' --with-tcl-config=$EBROOTTCL/lib/tclConfig.sh --with-tk-config=$EBROOTTK/lib/tkConfig.sh '
+# Enable graphics capabilities for plotting.
+configopts += ' --with-cairo --with-libpng --with-jpeglib --with-libtiff '
+# some recommended packages may fail in a parallel build (e.g. Matrix), and we're installing them anyway below
+configopts += ' --with-recommended-packages=no'
+
+osdependencies = [('openssl-devel', 'libssl-dev', 'libopenssl-devel')]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('libreadline', '6.3'),
+    ('libpng', '1.6.21'),  # for plotting in R
+    ('libjpeg-turbo', '1.4.2'),  # for plottting in R
+    ('LibTIFF', '4.0.6'),   # Cairo and rgdal
+    ('Java', '1.8.0_92', '', True),  # Java bindings are built if Java is found, might as well provide it
+    ('Tcl', '8.6.5'),  # for tcltk
+    ('Tk', '8.6.5', '-libX11-1.6.3'),  # for tcltk
+    ('cURL', '7.47.0'),  # for RCurl
+    ('libxml2', '2.9.3'),  # for XML
+    ('GDAL', '2.1.0'),  # for rgdal
+    ('PROJ', '4.9.2'), # for rgdal
+    ('libX11', '1.6.3'),  # for X11
+    ('libXt', '1.1.5'),  # for X11
+    ('Pango', '1.40.1'),
+    ('cairo', '1.14.6', '-GLib-2.48.0'),
+    ('PCRE', '8.38'),
+]
+
+name_tmpl = '%(name)s_%(version)s.tar.gz'
+ext_options = {
+    'source_urls': [
+        'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/%(name)s',  # package archive
+        'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/',  # current version of packages
+        'http://cran.freestatistics.org/src/contrib',  # mirror alternative for current packages
+    ],
+    'source_tmpl': name_tmpl,
+}
+
+
+# !! order of packages is important !!
+# package versions updated May 26 2016
+exts_list = [
+    # default libraries, only here to sanity check their presence
+    'base',
+    'datasets',
+    'graphics',
+    'grDevices',
+    'grid',
+    'methods',
+    'parallel',
+    'splines',
+    'stats',
+    'stats4',
+    'tools',
+    'utils',
+    # non-standard libraries, should be specified with fixed versions!
+    ('Rmpi', '0.6-5', ext_options),
+    ('abind', '1.4-3', ext_options),
+    ('magic', '1.5-6', ext_options),
+    ('geometry', '0.3-6', dict(ext_options.items()+ [('patches', ['geometry-0.3-6-icc.patch'])])),
+    ('bit', '1.1-12', ext_options),
+    ('filehash', '2.3', ext_options),
+    ('ff', '2.2-13', ext_options),
+    ('bnlearn', '4.0', ext_options),
+    ('bootstrap', '2015.2', ext_options),
+    ('combinat', '0.0-8', ext_options),
+    ('deal', '1.2-37', ext_options),
+    ('fdrtool', '1.2.15', ext_options),
+    ('formatR', '1.4', ext_options),
+    ('gtools', '3.5.0', ext_options),
+    ('gdata', '2.17.0', ext_options),
+    ('GSA', '1.03', ext_options),
+    ('highr', '0.6', ext_options),
+    ('infotheo', '1.2.0', ext_options),
+    ('lars', '1.2', ext_options),
+    ('lazy', '1.2-15', ext_options),
+    ('kernlab', '0.9-24', ext_options),
+    ('mime', '0.4', ext_options),
+    ('markdown', '0.7.7', ext_options),
+    ('mlbench', '2.1-1', ext_options),
+    ('NLP', '0.1-9', ext_options),
+    ('mclust', '5.2', ext_options),
+    ('RANN', '2.5', ext_options),
+    ('rmeta', '2.16', ext_options),
+    ('segmented', '0.5-1.4', ext_options),
+    ('som', '0.3-5', ext_options),
+    ('SuppDists', '1.1-9.2', ext_options),
+    ('stabledist', '0.7-0', ext_options),
+    ('survivalROC', '1.0.3', ext_options),
+    ('pspline', '1.0-17', ext_options),
+    ('timeDate', '3012.100', ext_options),
+    ('longmemo', '1.0-0', ext_options),
+    ('ADGofTest', '0.3', ext_options),
+    ('ade4', '1.7-4', ext_options),
+    ('AlgDesign', '1.1-7.3', ext_options),
+    ('base64enc', '0.1-3', ext_options),
+    ('BH', '1.60.0-2', ext_options),
+    ('brew', '1.0-6', ext_options),
+    ('Brobdingnag', '1.2-4', ext_options),
+    ('corpcor', '1.6.8', ext_options),
+    ('longitudinal', '1.1.12', ext_options),
+    ('stringi', '1.0-1', ext_options),
+    ('backports', '1.0.2', ext_options),
+    ('checkmate', '1.7.4', ext_options),
+    ('cubature', '1.1-2', ext_options),
+    ('DEoptimR', '1.0-4', ext_options),
+    ('digest', '0.6.9', ext_options),
+    ('fastmatch', '1.0-4', ext_options),
+    ('ffbase', '0.12.3', ext_options),
+    ('iterators', '1.0.8', ext_options),
+    ('maps', '3.1.0', ext_options),
+    ('nnls', '1.4', ext_options),
+    ('sendmailR', '1.2-1', ext_options),
+    ('spam', '1.3-0', ext_options),
+    ('subplex', '1.1-6', ext_options),
+    ('magrittr', '1.5', ext_options),
+    ('stringr', '1.0.0', ext_options),
+    ('evaluate', '0.9', ext_options),
+    ('logspline', '2.1.9', ext_options),
+    ('ncbit', '2013.03.29', ext_options),
+    ('permute', '0.9-0', ext_options),
+    ('plotrix', '3.6-2', ext_options),
+    ('randomForest', '4.6-12', ext_options),
+    ('scatterplot3d', '0.3-37', ext_options),
+    ('SparseM', '1.7', ext_options),
+    ('tripack', '1.3-7', ext_options),
+    ('irace', '1.07', ext_options),
+    ('rJava', '0.9-8', ext_options),
+    ('lattice', '0.20-33', ext_options),
+    ('RColorBrewer', '1.1-2', ext_options),
+    ('latticeExtra', '0.6-28', ext_options),
+    ('Matrix', '1.2-6', ext_options),
+    ('png', '0.1-7', ext_options),
+    ('Rcpp', '0.12.5', ext_options),
+    ('RcppArmadillo', '0.6.700.6.0', ext_options),
+    ('plyr', '1.8.3', ext_options),
+    ('pROC', '1.8', ext_options),
+    ('quadprog', '1.5-5', ext_options),
+    ('BB', '2014.10-1', ext_options),
+    ('BBmisc', '1.9', ext_options),
+    ('fail', '1.3', ext_options),
+    ('rlecuyer', '0.3-4', ext_options),
+    ('snow', '0.4-1', ext_options),
+    ('MASS', '7.3-45', ext_options),
+    ('tree', '1.0-37', ext_options),
+    ('pls', '2.5-0', ext_options),
+    ('class', '7.3-14', ext_options),
+    ('e1071', '1.6-7', ext_options),
+    ('nnet', '7.3-12', ext_options),
+    ('nlme', '3.1-128', ext_options),
+    ('minqa', '1.2.4', ext_options),
+    ('RcppEigen', '0.3.2.8.1', ext_options),
+    ('MatrixModels', '0.4-1', ext_options),
+    ('quantreg', '5.24', ext_options),
+    ('mgcv', '1.8-12', ext_options),
+    ('colorspace', '1.2-6', ext_options),
+    ('robustbase', '0.92-5', ext_options),
+    ('sp', '1.2-3', ext_options),
+    ('zoo', '1.7-13', ext_options),
+    ('lmtest', '0.9-34', ext_options),
+    ('vcd', '1.4-1', ext_options),
+    ('snowfall', '1.84-6.1', ext_options),
+    ('rpart', '4.1-10', ext_options),
+    ('survival', '2.39-4', ext_options),
+    ('mice', '2.25', ext_options),
+    ('urca', '1.2-9', ext_options),
+    ('fracdiff', '1.4-2', ext_options),
+    ('logistf', '1.21', ext_options), 
+    ('akima', '0.5-12', ext_options),
+    ('bitops', '1.0-6', ext_options),
+    ('boot', '1.3-18', ext_options),
+    ('mixtools', '1.0.4', ext_options),
+    ('cluster', '2.0.4', ext_options),
+    ('gclus', '1.3.1', ext_options),
+    ('coda', '0.18-1', ext_options),
+    ('codetools', '0.2-14', ext_options),
+    ('foreach', '1.4.3', ext_options),
+    ('doMC', '1.3.4', ext_options),
+    ('DBI', '0.4-1', ext_options),
+    ('foreign', '0.8-66', ext_options),
+    ('gam', '1.12', ext_options),
+    ('gamlss.data', '4.3-4', ext_options),
+    ('gamlss.dist', '4.3-6', ext_options),
+    ('hwriter', '1.3.2', ext_options),
+    ('KernSmooth', '2.23-15', ext_options),
+    ('xts', '0.9-7', ext_options),
+    ('TTR', '0.23-1', ext_options),
+    ('quantmod', '0.4-5', ext_options),
+    ('mnormt', '1.5-4', ext_options),
+    ('mvtnorm', '1.0-5', ext_options),
+    ('pcaPP', '1.9-60', ext_options),
+    ('numDeriv', '2014.2-1', ext_options),
+    ('lava', '1.4.3', ext_options),
+    ('prodlim', '1.5.7', ext_options),
+    ('pscl', '1.4.9', ext_options),
+    ('RSQLite', '1.0.0', ext_options),
+    ('BatchJobs', '1.6', ext_options),
+    ('sandwich', '2.3-4', ext_options),
+    ('sfsmisc', '1.1-0', ext_options),
+    ('spatial', '7.3-11', ext_options),
+    ('VGAM', '1.0-1', ext_options),
+    ('waveslim', '1.7.5', ext_options),
+    ('xtable', '1.8-2', ext_options),
+    ('profileModel', '0.5-9', ext_options),
+    ('brglm', '0.5-9', ext_options),
+    ('deSolve', '1.13', ext_options),
+    ('tseriesChaos', '0.1-13', ext_options),
+    ('tseries', '0.10-35', ext_options),
+    ('fastICA', '1.2-0', ext_options),
+    ('R.methodsS3', '1.7.1', ext_options),
+    ('R.oo', '1.20.0', ext_options),
+    ('cgdsr', '1.2.5', ext_options),
+    ('R.utils', '2.3.0', ext_options),
+    ('R.matlab', '3.5.1', ext_options),
+    ('gbm', '2.1.1', ext_options),
+    ('dichromat', '2.0-0', ext_options),
+    ('Formula', '1.2-1', ext_options),
+    ('acepack', '1.3-3.3', ext_options),
+    ('reshape2', '1.4.1', ext_options),
+    ('gtable', '0.2.0', ext_options),
+    ('munsell', '0.4.3', ext_options),
+    ('labeling', '0.3', ext_options),
+    ('scales', '0.4.0', ext_options),
+    ('proto', '0.3-10', ext_options),
+    ('ggplot2', '2.1.0', ext_options),
+    ('gridExtra', '2.2.1', ext_options),
+    ('chron', '2.3-47', ext_options),
+    ('data.table', '1.9.6', ext_options),
+    ('Hmisc', '3.17-4', ext_options),
+    ('fastcluster', '1.1.20', ext_options),
+    ('registry', '0.3', ext_options),
+    ('pkgmaker', '0.22', ext_options),
+    ('rngtools', '1.2.4', ext_options),
+    ('doParallel', '1.0.10', ext_options),
+    ('gridBase', '0.4-7', ext_options),
+    ('NMF', '0.20.6', ext_options),
+    ('irlba', '2.0.0', ext_options),
+    ('igraph', '1.0.1', ext_options),
+    ('GeneNet', '1.2.13', ext_options),
+    ('ape', '3.5', ext_options),
+    ('htmltools', '0.3.5', ext_options),
+    ('RJSONIO', '1.3-0', ext_options),
+    ('caTools', '1.17.1', ext_options),
+    ('gplots', '3.0.1', ext_options),
+    ('ROCR', '1.0-7', ext_options),
+    ('httpuv', '1.3.3', ext_options),
+    ('R6', '2.1.2', ext_options),
+    ('jsonlite', '0.9.20', ext_options),
+    ('rjson', '0.2.15', ext_options),
+    ('shiny', '0.13.2', ext_options),
+    ('seqinr', '3.1-3', ext_options),
+    ('LearnBayes', '2.15', ext_options),
+    ('deldir', '0.1-12', ext_options),
+    ('gmodels', '2.16.2', ext_options),
+    ('spdep', '0.6-4', ext_options),
+    ('assertthat', '0.1', ext_options),
+    ('lazyeval', '0.1.10', ext_options),
+    ('dplyr', '0.4.3', ext_options),
+    ('vegan', '2.3-5', ext_options),
+    ('adegenet', '2.0.1', ext_options),
+    ('rncl', '0.6.0', ext_options),
+    ('XML', '3.98-1.4', ext_options),
+    ('memoise', '1.0.0', ext_options),
+    ('crayon', '1.3.1', ext_options),
+    ('praise', '1.0.0', ext_options),
+    ('testthat', '1.0.2', ext_options),
+    ('yaml', '2.1.13', ext_options),
+    ('knitr', '1.13', ext_options),
+    ('rmarkdown', '0.9.6', ext_options),
+    ('curl', '0.9.7', ext_options),
+    ('openssl', '0.9.4', ext_options),
+    ('httr', '1.1.0', ext_options),
+    ('reshape', '0.8.5', ext_options),
+    ('xml2', '0.1.2', ext_options),
+    ('bold', '0.3.5', ext_options),
+    ('rredlist', '0.1.0', ext_options),
+    ('rentrez', '1.0.2', ext_options),
+    ('rotl', '3.0.0', ext_options),
+    ('taxize', '0.7.6', ext_options),
+    ('tidyr', '0.4.1', ext_options),
+    ('uuid', '0.1-2', ext_options),
+    ('RNeXML', '2.0.6', ext_options),
+    ('phylobase', '0.8.2', ext_options),
+    ('adephylo', '1.1-6', ext_options),
+    ('animation', '2.4', ext_options),
+    ('bigmemory.sri', '0.1.3', ext_options),
+    ('bigmemory', '4.5.19', dict(ext_options.items()+ [('patches', ['bigmemory-4.5.19_icpc-wd308.patch'])])),
+    ('calibrate', '1.7.2', ext_options),
+    ('clusterGeneration', '1.3.4', ext_options),
+    ('raster', '2.5-2', ext_options),
+    ('dismo', '1.0-15', ext_options),
+    ('expm', '0.999-0', ext_options),
+    ('extrafontdb', '1.0', ext_options),
+    ('Rttf2pt1', '1.3.4', ext_options),
+    ('extrafont', '0.17', ext_options),
+    ('fields', '8.4-1', ext_options),
+    ('shapefiles', '0.7', ext_options),
+    ('fossil', '0.3.7', ext_options),
+    ('geiger', '2.0.6', ext_options),
+    ('glmnet', '2.0-5', ext_options),
+    ('rgl', '0.95.1441', ext_options),
+    ('labdsv', '1.8-0', ext_options),
+    ('stabs', '0.5-1', ext_options),
+    ('strucchange', '1.5-1', ext_options),
+    ('modeltools', '0.2-21', ext_options),
+    ('TH.data', '1.0-7', ext_options),
+    ('multcomp', '1.4-5', ext_options),
+    ('coin', '1.1-2', ext_options),
+    ('party', '1.0-25', ext_options),
+    ('mboost', '2.6-0', ext_options),
+    ('msm', '1.6.1', ext_options),
+    ('nor1mix', '1.2-1', ext_options),
+    ('np', '0.60-2', ext_options),
+    ('polynom', '1.3-8', ext_options),
+    ('polspline', '1.1.12', ext_options),
+    ('rms', '4.5-0', ext_options),
+    ('RWekajars', '3.9.0-1', ext_options),
+    ('RWeka', '0.4-27', ext_options),
+    ('slam', '0.1-34', ext_options),
+    ('tm', '0.6-2', ext_options),
+    ('TraMineR', '1.8-11.1', ext_options),
+    ('chemometrics', '1.3.9', ext_options),
+    ('FNN', '1.1', ext_options),
+    ('ipred', '0.9-5', ext_options),
+    ('statmod', '1.4.24', ext_options),
+    ('miscTools', '0.6-16', ext_options),
+    ('maxLik', '1.3-4', ext_options),
+    ('mlogit', '0.2-4', ext_options),
+    ('getopt', '1.20.0', ext_options),
+    ('gsalib', '2.1', ext_options),
+    ('optparse', '1.3.2', ext_options),
+    ('klaR', '0.6-12', ext_options),
+    ('neuRosim', '0.2-12', ext_options),
+    ('locfit', '1.5-9.1', ext_options),
+    ('GGally', '1.0.1', ext_options),
+    ('beanplot', '1.2', ext_options),
+    ('clValid', '0.6-6', ext_options),
+    ('matrixStats', '0.50.2', ext_options),
+    ('DiscriMiner', '0.1-29', ext_options),
+    ('ellipse', '0.3-8', ext_options),
+    ('leaps', '2.9', ext_options),
+    ('nloptr', '1.0.4', ext_options),
+    ('lme4', '1.1-12', ext_options),
+    ('pbkrtest', '0.4-6', ext_options),
+    ('car', '2.1-2', ext_options),
+    ('flashClust', '1.01-2', ext_options),
+    ('FactoMineR', '1.33', ext_options),
+    ('flexclust', '1.3-4', ext_options),
+    ('flexmix', '2.3-13', ext_options),
+    ('prabclus', '2.2-6', ext_options),
+    ('diptest', '0.75-7', ext_options),
+    ('trimcluster', '0.1-2', ext_options),
+    ('fpc', '2.1-10', ext_options),
+    ('BiasedUrn', '1.07', ext_options),
+    ('TeachingDemos', '2.10', ext_options),
+    ('kohonen', '2.0.19', ext_options),
+    ('base64', '2.0', ext_options),
+    ('doRNG', '1.6', ext_options),
+    ('nleqslv', '3.0.1', ext_options),
+    ('RGCCA', '2.0', ext_options),
+    ('pheatmap', '1.0.8', ext_options),
+    ('openxlsx', '3.0.0', ext_options),
+    ('pvclust', '2.0-0', ext_options),
+    ('RCircos', '1.1.3', ext_options),
+    ('lambda.r', '1.1.7', ext_options),
+    ('futile.options', '1.0.0', ext_options),
+    ('futile.logger', '1.4.1', ext_options),
+    ('VennDiagram', '1.6.17', ext_options),
+    ('xlsxjars', '0.6.1', ext_options),
+    ('xlsx', '0.5.7', ext_options),
+    ('forecast', '7.1', dict(ext_options.items()+ [('patches', ['forecast-7.1_icpc-wd308.patch'])])),
+    ('fma', '2.01', ext_options),
+    ('expsmooth', '2.3', ext_options),
+    ('fpp', '0.5', ext_options),
+    ('maptools', '0.8-39', ext_options),
+    ('tensor', '1.5', ext_options),
+    ('polyclip', '1.5-6', ext_options),
+    ('goftest', '1.0-3', ext_options),
+    ('spatstat', '1.45-2', ext_options),
+    ('rgdal', '1.1-10', ext_options),
+    ('gdalUtils', '2.0.1.7', ext_options),
+    ('pracma', '1.8.8', ext_options),
+    ('RCurl', '1.95-4.8', ext_options),
+    ('bio3d', '2.2-4', ext_options),
+    ('AUC', '0.3.0', ext_options),
+    ('interpretR', '0.2.4', ext_options),
+    ('cvAUC', '1.1.0', ext_options),
+    ('SuperLearner', '2.0-19', ext_options),
+    ('lpSolve', '5.6.13', ext_options),
+    ('mediation', '4.4.5', ext_options),
+    ('caret', '6.0-68', ext_options),
+    ('adabag', '4.1', ext_options),
+    ('parallelMap', '1.3', ext_options),
+    ('ParamHelpers', '1.7', ext_options),
+    ('ggvis', '0.4.2', ext_options),
+    ('mlr', '2.8', ext_options),
+    ('unbalanced', '2.0', ext_options),
+    ('RSNNS', '0.4-7', ext_options),
+    ('abc.data', '1.0', ext_options),
+    ('abc', '2.1', ext_options),
+    ('lhs', '0.13', ext_options),
+    ('tensorA', '0.36', ext_options),
+    ('EasyABC', '1.5', ext_options),
+    ('shape', '1.4.2', ext_options),
+    ('whisker', '0.3-2', ext_options),
+    ('rstudioapi', '0.5', ext_options),
+    ('roxygen2', '5.0.1', ext_options),
+    ('git2r', '0.15.0', ext_options),
+    ('rversions', '1.0.2', ext_options),
+    ('withr', '1.0.1', ext_options),
+    ('devtools', '1.11.1', ext_options),
+    ('Rook', '1.1-1', ext_options),
+    ('Cairo', '1.5-9', ext_options),
+    ('RMTstat', '0.3', ext_options),
+    ('Lmoments', '1.2-3', ext_options),
+    ('distillery', '1.0-2', ext_options),
+    ('extRemes', '2.0-7', ext_options),
+    ('pixmap', '0.4-11', ext_options),
+    ('tkrplot', '0.0-23', ext_options),
+    ('misc3d', '0.8-4', ext_options),
+    ('multicool', '0.1-9', dict(ext_options.items()+ [('patches', ['multicool-0.1-9_icpc-wd308.patch'])])),
+    ('ks', '1.10.3', ext_options),
+    ('logcondens', '2.1.4', ext_options),
+    ('Iso', '0.0-17', ext_options),
+    ('penalized', '0.9-46', ext_options),
+    ('clusterRepro', '0.5-1.1', ext_options),
+    ('randomForestSRC', '2.2.0', ext_options),
+    ('sm', '2.2-5.4', ext_options),
+    ('psych', '1.6.4', ext_options),
+    ('pbivnorm', '0.6.0', ext_options),
+    ('lavaan', '0.5-20', ext_options),
+    ('matrixcalc', '1.0-3', ext_options),
+    ('arm', '1.8-6', ext_options),
+    ('mi', '1.0', ext_options),
+    ('htmlwidgets', '0.6', ext_options),
+    ('visNetwork', '1.0.0', ext_options),
+    ('DiagrammeR', '0.8.2', ext_options),
+    ('sem', '3.1-7', ext_options),
+    ('jpeg', '0.1-8', ext_options),
+    ('sna', '2.3-2', ext_options),
+    ('glasso', '1.8', dict(ext_options.items()+ [('patches', ['glasso-1.8-ifort-no-fixed.patch'])])),
+    ('huge', '1.2.7', ext_options),
+    ('d3Network', '0.5.2.1', ext_options),
+    ('ggm', '2.3', ext_options),
+    ('qgraph', '1.3.3', ext_options),
+    ('diveRsity', '1.9.89', ext_options),
+    ('doSNOW', '1.0.14', ext_options),
+    ('phangorn', '2.0.3', ext_options),
+]
+
+moduleclass = 'lang'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/R/bigmemory-4.5.19_icpc-wd308.patch b/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/R/bigmemory-4.5.19_icpc-wd308.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..776ff0e83992
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/R/bigmemory-4.5.19_icpc-wd308.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+diff -ru bigmemory.orig/configure bigmemory/configure
+--- bigmemory.orig/configure    2016-05-18 12:00:18.021806723 -0700
++++ bigmemory/configure 2016-05-18 12:01:36.757128058 -0700
+@@ -38,3 +38,5 @@
+ 
+ echo "${FLAGS}" > src/Makevars
+ echo "${LIBS}" >> src/Makevars
++echo "# disable Intel C++ compiler (icpc) warning/error #308, to avoid 'member \"std::complex<double>::_M_value\" is inaccessible'" >> src/Makevars
++echo "PKG_CXXFLAGS = -wd308" >> src/Makevars
+diff -ru bigmemory.orig/MD5 bigmemory/MD5
+--- bigmemory.orig/MD5  2016-05-18 12:00:18.021806723 -0700
++++ bigmemory/MD5       2016-05-18 12:02:11.564828529 -0700
+@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
+ 08d8ac748bb99e6cd73cbc851ba24e6f *R/zzz.R
+ 3d01d7e508b363c81587088af3221fa7 *build/vignette.rds
+ cff4b0071fbcb3165aaf35c802b46b34 *cleanup
+-eb219c5b9917fe3022b63e0296e61953 *configure
++04b3ce27c656a79eded3b3e21bdaa97b *configure
+ fc5c8f75e424213609b3e3cd9b57f5bf *configure.win
+ 0cd9765e8adee62083d32a17a6b9aa07 *inst/CITATION
+ f883e7fbbec7e35f5142805cd80548cf *inst/doc/Overview.R
+
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/R/forecast-7.1_icpc-wd308.patch b/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/R/forecast-7.1_icpc-wd308.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..13109606ff24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/R/forecast-7.1_icpc-wd308.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+--- forecast.orig/src/Makevars  2016-05-18 09:21:25.805883692 -0700
++++ forecast/src/Makevars       2016-05-18 09:22:18.541408635 -0700
+@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
+ ## Use the R_HOME indirection to support installations of multiple R version
+ PKG_LIBS=$(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS) $(FLIBS)
++# disable Intel C++ compiler (icpc) warning/error #308, to avoid 'member "std::complex<double>::_M_value" is inaccessible'
++PKG_CXXFLAGS = -wd308
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/R/geometry-0.3-6-icc.patch b/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/R/geometry-0.3-6-icc.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a8ea4152a22e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/r/R/geometry-0.3-6-icc.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+--- geometry.orig/src/qhull_a.h 2016-05-17 16:45:20.249539081 -0700
++++ geometry/src/qhull_a.h      2016-05-17 16:46:26.580975228 -0700
+@@ -103,9 +103,7 @@
+ #   define QHULL_OS_WIN
+ #endif
+ #if defined(__INTEL_COMPILER) && !defined(QHULL_OS_WIN)
+-template <typename T>
+-inline void qhullUnused(T &x) { (void)x; }
+-#  define QHULL_UNUSED(x) qhullUnused(x);
++#  define QHULL_UNUSED(x) (x);
+ #else
+ #  define QHULL_UNUSED(x) (void)x;
+ #endif
+
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/SQLite/SQLite-3.9.2-foss-2016a-Tcl-8.6.5.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/SQLite/SQLite-3.9.2-foss-2016a-Tcl-8.6.5.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..794dd0dc3cf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/SQLite/SQLite-3.9.2-foss-2016a-Tcl-8.6.5.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+##
+# This file is an EasyBuild reciPY as per https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild
+#
+# Copyright:: Copyright 2012-2014 Uni.Lu/LCSB, NTUA
+# Authors::   Fotis Georgatos <fotis@cern.ch>
+# License::   MIT/GPL
+# $Id$
+#
+# This work implements a part of the HPCBIOS project and is a component of the policy:
+# http://hpcbios.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
+##
+
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'SQLite'
+version = '3.9.2'
+versionsuffix = '-Tcl-8.6.5'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.sqlite.org/'
+description = 'SQLite: SQL Database Engine in a C Library'
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+# eg. http://www.sqlite.org/2014/sqlite-autoconf-3080600.tar.gz
+source_urls = ['http://www.sqlite.org/2015/']
+version_str = '%%(version_major)s%s00' % ''.join('%02d' % int(x) for x in version.split('.')[1:])
+sources = ['sqlite-autoconf-%s.tar.gz' % version_str]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('libreadline', '6.3'),
+    ('Tcl', '8.6.5'),
+]
+
+parallel = 1
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/sqlite3', 'include/sqlite3ext.h', 'include/sqlite3.h', 'lib/libsqlite3.a', 'lib/libsqlite3.%s' % SHLIB_EXT],
+    'dirs': ['lib/pkgconfig'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'devel'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/SQLite/SQLite-3.9.2-intel-2016a-Tcl-8.6.5.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/SQLite/SQLite-3.9.2-intel-2016a-Tcl-8.6.5.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9399440480cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/s/SQLite/SQLite-3.9.2-intel-2016a-Tcl-8.6.5.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+##
+# This file is an EasyBuild reciPY as per https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild
+#
+# Copyright:: Copyright 2012-2014 Uni.Lu/LCSB, NTUA
+# Authors::   Fotis Georgatos <fotis@cern.ch>
+# License::   MIT/GPL
+# $Id$
+#
+# This work implements a part of the HPCBIOS project and is a component of the policy:
+# http://hpcbios.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
+##
+
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'SQLite'
+version = '3.9.2'
+versionsuffix = '-Tcl-8.6.5'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.sqlite.org/'
+description = 'SQLite: SQL Database Engine in a C Library'
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'intel', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+# eg. http://www.sqlite.org/2014/sqlite-autoconf-3080600.tar.gz
+source_urls = ['http://www.sqlite.org/2015/']
+version_str = '%%(version_major)s%s00' % ''.join('%02d' % int(x) for x in version.split('.')[1:])
+sources = ['sqlite-autoconf-%s.tar.gz' % version_str]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('libreadline', '6.3'),
+    ('Tcl', '8.6.5'),
+]
+
+parallel = 1
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/sqlite3', 'include/sqlite3ext.h', 'include/sqlite3.h', 'lib/libsqlite3.a', 'lib/libsqlite3.%s' % SHLIB_EXT],
+    'dirs': ['lib/pkgconfig'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'devel'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/Tcl/Tcl-8.6.5-foss-2016a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/Tcl/Tcl-8.6.5-foss-2016a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1dc1677c3418
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/Tcl/Tcl-8.6.5-foss-2016a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'Tcl'
+version = '8.6.5'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.tcl.tk/'
+description = """Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a very powerful but easy to learn dynamic programming language,
+suitable for a very wide range of uses, including web and desktop applications, networking, administration, testing and many more."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+source_urls = ["http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl"]
+sources = ['%(namelower)s%(version)s-src.tar.gz']
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('zlib', '1.2.8'),
+]
+
+configopts = '--enable-threads EXTRA_INSTALL="install-private-headers"'
+
+runtest = 'test'
+
+start_dir = 'unix'
+
+moduleclass = 'lang'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/Tcl/Tcl-8.6.5-intel-2016a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/Tcl/Tcl-8.6.5-intel-2016a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..36c5538fff09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/Tcl/Tcl-8.6.5-intel-2016a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'Tcl'
+version = '8.6.5'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.tcl.tk/'
+description = """Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a very powerful but easy to learn dynamic programming language,
+suitable for a very wide range of uses, including web and desktop applications, networking, administration, testing and many more."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'intel', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+source_urls = ["http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl"]
+sources = ['%(namelower)s%(version)s-src.tar.gz']
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('zlib', '1.2.8'),
+]
+
+configopts = '--enable-threads EXTRA_INSTALL="install-private-headers"'
+
+runtest = 'test'
+
+start_dir = 'unix'
+
+moduleclass = 'lang'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/Tk/Tk-8.6.5-foss-2016a-libX11-1.6.3.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/Tk/Tk-8.6.5-foss-2016a-libX11-1.6.3.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b346a000db21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/Tk/Tk-8.6.5-foss-2016a-libX11-1.6.3.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'Tk'
+version = '8.6.5'
+libx11 = 'libX11'
+libxver = '1.6.3'
+versionsuffix = '-%s-%s' % (libx11, libxver)
+
+homepage = 'http://www.tcl.tk/'
+description = """Tk is an open source, cross-platform widget toolchain that provides a library of basic elements for building
+ a graphical user interface (GUI) in many different programming languages."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+source_urls = ["http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl"]
+sources = ['%(namelower)s%(version)s-src.tar.gz']
+
+patches = ['Tk-%(version)s_different-prefix-with-tcl.patch']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('xextproto', '7.3.0'),
+    ('xproto', '7.0.28'),
+]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('Tcl', version),
+    ('zlib', '1.2.8'),
+    (libx11, libxver),
+    ('libXt', '1.1.5'),
+    ('libXext', '1.3.3'),
+    ('libXft', '2.3.2', '-fontconfig-2.11.95'),
+]
+
+configopts = '--disable-xss --enable-threads --with-tcl=$EBROOTTCL/lib CFLAGS="-I$EBROOTTCL/include"'
+
+start_dir = 'unix'
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/Tk/Tk-8.6.5-intel-2016a-libX11-1.6.3.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/Tk/Tk-8.6.5-intel-2016a-libX11-1.6.3.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1ffd91be5796
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/Tk/Tk-8.6.5-intel-2016a-libX11-1.6.3.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'Tk'
+version = '8.6.5'
+libx11 = 'libX11'
+libxver = '1.6.3'
+versionsuffix = '-%s-%s' % (libx11, libxver)
+
+homepage = 'http://www.tcl.tk/'
+description = """Tk is an open source, cross-platform widget toolchain that provides a library of basic elements for building
+ a graphical user interface (GUI) in many different programming languages."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'intel', 'version': '2016a'}
+
+source_urls = ["http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl"]
+sources = ['%(namelower)s%(version)s-src.tar.gz']
+
+patches = ['Tk-%(version)s_different-prefix-with-tcl.patch']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('xextproto', '7.3.0'),
+    ('xproto', '7.0.28'),
+]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('Tcl', version),
+    ('zlib', '1.2.8'),
+    (libx11, libxver),
+    ('libXt', '1.1.5'),
+    ('libXext', '1.3.3'),
+    ('libXft', '2.3.2', '-fontconfig-2.11.95'),
+]
+
+configopts = '--disable-xss --enable-threads --with-tcl=$EBROOTTCL/lib CFLAGS="-I$EBROOTTCL/include"'
+
+start_dir = 'unix'
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/Tk/Tk-8.6.5_different-prefix-with-tcl.patch b/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/Tk/Tk-8.6.5_different-prefix-with-tcl.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ffae3f422150
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/t/Tk/Tk-8.6.5_different-prefix-with-tcl.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+fix for:
+    _tkinter.TclError: Can't find a usable tk.tcl in the following directories: ...
+based on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/decd2feb0a1bc80940e697fa66e3b25383360c30
+see also https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/1479
+author: Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent)
+--- tk8.6.5/unix/Makefile.in.orig	2016-05-19 15:18:42.528875000 -0700
++++ tk8.6.5/unix/Makefile.in	2016-05-19 15:33:34.592394000 -0700
+@@ -1025,7 +1025,8 @@
+ 	$(CC) -c $(CC_SWITCHES) $(GENERIC_DIR)/tkVisual.c
+ 
+ tkWindow.o: $(GENERIC_DIR)/tkWindow.c
+-	$(CC) -c $(CC_SWITCHES) $(GENERIC_DIR)/tkWindow.c
++	$(CC) -c $(CC_SWITCHES) -DTK_LIBRARY=\"${TK_LIBRARY}\" \
++	$(GENERIC_DIR)/tkWindow.c
+ 
+ tkButton.o: $(GENERIC_DIR)/tkButton.c
+ 	$(CC) -c $(CC_SWITCHES) $(GENERIC_DIR)/tkButton.c
+--- tk8.6.5/generic/tkWindow.c.orig	2016-05-19 15:18:44.220847000 -0700
++++ tk8.6.5/generic/tkWindow.c	2016-05-19 15:34:29.567559000 -0700
+@@ -988,6 +988,7 @@
+ 
+     Tcl_SetVar2(interp, "tk_patchLevel", NULL, TK_PATCH_LEVEL, TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
+     Tcl_SetVar2(interp, "tk_version",    NULL, TK_VERSION,     TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
++    Tcl_SetVar2(interp, "tk_library",    NULL, TK_LIBRARY,     TCL_GLOBAL_ONLY);
+ 
+     tsdPtr->numMainWindows++;
+     return tkwin;