[R] Which BUGS should one use?

[R. Michael Weylandt]

Whit Armstrong is building a R-centric BUGS (RcppBugs) which looks
very powerful as well: you might talk to him about it.

www.rinfinance.com/agenda/2012/talk/WhitArmstrong.pdf
https://github.com/armstrtw/rcppbugs

Cheers,
Michael

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Seref Arikan
<serefarikan at kurumsalteknoloji.com> wrote:
> Hi Petar,
> I've tried to build a model with WinBugs and found out that there is a
> limit related to defining variables with discrete distributions. Sorry I
> can't remember the details but I think it did not support more than 5
> discrete variables as parent of another variable or something like that.
> JAGS did not have the same limitation and it let me complete my work.
> Again, sorry about not being clear enough about my problem with WinBugs,
> but at least I can say that JAGS worked as expected. Maybe there was a way
> of handling the problem in WinBugs, but I could not find it.
>
> Kind regards
> Seref
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Petar Milin <pmilin at ff.uns.ac.rs> wrote:
>
>> Hello ALL!
>> Some times ago I started to learn and play with Bayesian stuffs. Many
>> advice use of WinBUGS for Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampler.
>> However, WinBUGS is discontinued, and now, development is under
>> OpenBUGS. I wasn't lazy, so I installed both and tried out. In more than
>> 90% of cases they give comparable outcome. But in few cases I got
>> substantial differences. Recently, I read nice things about JAGS (Just
>> Another Gibbs Sampler). However, I did not try it.
>>
>> Since I am using Linux, Fedora 64-bit, and have Windows XP under
>> VirtualBox, I even tested WinBUGS/OpenBUGS under bot Linux and Windows.
>> Same, occasional differences repeated.
>>
>> My question is, as in the Subject: which BUGS should one use? Sintax is
>> similar. They are all nicely integrated with R. But, what would be the
>> best for a beginner? And for the future too?
>>
>> Best,
>> PM
>>
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