[R] Metropolis-Hastings Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Spatstat

[roger koenker]

Take a look at:  http://sepwww.stanford.edu/software/ratfor.html
and in particular the link there to the original paper by Brian
Kernighan describing ratfor; it is only 14 pages, but it is a model
of clarity of exposition and design.

I wouldn't worry too much about the makefile  -- it probably
knows exactly what to do with ratfor provided you have the
ratfor preprocessor available from the above link, and the rest
of the tools to build from source.

url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger            Roger Koenker
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On Jun 6, 2007, at 4:42 PM, Kevin C Packard wrote:

> I'm testing some different formulations of pairwise interaction  
> point processes
> in Spatstat (version 1.11-6) using R 2.5.0 on a Windows platform  
> and I wish to
> simulate them using the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm implemented  
> with Spatstat.
> Spatstat utilizes Fortran77 code with the preprocessor RatFor to do  
> the
> Metropolis-Hastings MCMC, but the Makefile is more complicated than  
> any I have
> worked with.
> Any suggestions on how I could get started working with the Fortran  
> code in
> conjunction with RatFor is appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
> Kevin
>
> Kevin Packard
> Department of Forestry, PhD student
> Department of Statistics, MS student
> Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
> Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
>
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