[R] Bayesian Analysis using the BUGS Language

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Uwe Ligges wrote:

>
>
> DrakeGis wrote:
>> WinBugs doesn't run in LINUX. Neither OpenBugs.
>
> Ah, sorry, haven't read carefully enough.
> The only possible thing is to run WinBUGS under wine and use R2WinBUGS, which 
> supports the wine/WinBUGS combination.

'Linux' is too vague.  AFAIK none of this runs on Linux on Sparc or PPC 
for example.

Tobias Verbeke referred to a thread which is AFAICS about building an ix86 
Linux bugs executable from the distributed brugs.so in OpenBUGS.  If you 
can get that to run (and like Uwe, I get a trap), you can then communicate 
with that bugs executable via files (in the same way that R2WinBUGS 
communicates with WinBUGS).

It is not clear to me that the Windows classicbugs.exe or winbugs.exe in 
OpenBUGS could not be run under Wine with communication via files, but 
R2WinBUGS is not set up to do so.

>
> Best wishes,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>>> DrakeGis wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>  I observed that the 'link' between R and BUGS (winBugs/linBugs) has
>>>> totally disappeared. I'm wondering what package can be use to run
>>>> bayesian models specified using the BUGS language in R (specifically
>>>> under Linux). Is there any other option besides JAGS ?
>>>>  Thanks
>>> 
>>> Ther are several package, if you want to use WinBUGS (not recommended),
>>> there is the CRAN package R2WinBUGS, and if you want to use OpenBUGS
>>> (the "new" version of WinBUGS), use BRugs, which is available from the
>>> "CRAN extras" repository hosted by Brian Ripley (which is a default
>>> repository for R for Windows, hence install.packages("BRugs") should
>>> work).
>>> 
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Uwe Ligges
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
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