[R] Current state of support for BUGS access for Linux users?

[Gregor Gorjanc]

Hello!

> Re R packages:
> - R2WinBUGS is compatible with WinBUGS-1.4.x only, its newest version
> can speak with WinBUGS under wine thanks to user contributions. But it
> still depends on WinBUGS-1.4.x, hence Windows only (considering wine as
> Windows).

However Andrew Gelman, has added also support[1] for OpenBUGS so this 
might be also a good news for Linux if wine is used. Changelog can be 
found at [2].

[1]http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/bugsR/
[2]http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/bugsR/bugs.R

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Lep pozdrav / With regards,
     Gregor Gorjanc

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