[R] Problems with R2WinBUGS

[isabella at ghement.ca]

   Dear Ben,

   Thank you very much for your reply to my R2WinBUGS query.  As requested, I
   am attaching the following files to this e-mail:

   1) The .odc file containing the WinBUGS code I am trying to run from R.  The
   nodes to be monitored for posterior inference are: T, best, d, lor, mu, or
   and p.

   2) The .R file containing the call to the bugs() function in the package
   R2WinBUGS.

   3)  The .bug file containing the model specification used when calling
   bugs().
   Please  note  that  I  have tried to specify the initial values of the
   parameters  using a list rather than a function (as suggested by Peter
   Alspach), and got the following error message:

   Error in bugs(data, inits, model.file = "model.bug", parameters = c("T",  :
     Number of initialized chains (length(inits)) != n.chains

   Many thanks for any insight you may be able to provide into why the call to
   R2WinBUGS breaks down.  In case this may be needed, I am using R 2.6.2 and
   WinBUGS 1.4.

   Kind regards,

   Isabella

   Isabella R. Ghement, Ph.D.
   Ghement Statistical Consulting Company
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   On Wed , Ben Bolker sent:
   
     ghement.ca> writes:
     >
     >
     > Hello,
     >
     > I am trying to use R2WinBUGS to conduct a mixed treatment comparison
     (MTC)
     > analysis.
     > Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to provide!
     >
     Can you please provide your model.bug file?
     Ben Bolker
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