[R] How to create path for OpenBUGS into R using R2OpenBUGS with new Wineskin-Winery 1.8.4.1/Wineskin2.9.06-1 on MacOS Catalina 10.15.5

[Jeff Newmiller]

While you might get lucky here, there are two indicators in your post that suggest a different venue would be appropriate: one is that your question is very specific regarding a contributed package... this venue is about the language and base packages. Second, your customized (Wine+MacOSX) platform is very non-standard, though the nearest hit in the mailing lists may be r-sig-mac or r-sig-debian, since users on either of those platforms might have been tempted to use Wine at some point. But really you may need to ask in a Wine-specific mailing list because this smells like Wine-vs-Catalina incompatibility rather than an R issue.

On June 23, 2020 10:09:43 AM PDT, Jordan Rogan <roganjordan23 using gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I recently downloaded the new Wineskin-Winery 1.8.4.1/Wineskin2.9.06-1
>onto
>my mac adapted for the limitations for MacOS Catalina 10.15.5 that
>caused
>old versions of Wine to no longer work. I downloaded it so that I could
>download the Windows program OpenBUGS and use R2openBUGS in R to use
>the
>program. I am not very experienced with R, and I am trying to figure
>out
>how to call OpenBUGS into R with R2OpenBUGS with the new
>wineskin/wineskin-winery version. I found older code using the Wine
>argument in R2OpenBuGS, but I think the path has significantly changed
>with
>the new version of Wineskin which is not downloaded using homebrew as
>old
>versions of Wine were. I think I just need to figure out how to create
>the
>correct path for the new version of wine--I do not know if this is
>possible
>using the old wine argument designed for older versions of wine.
>
>I downloaded the new Wineskin from here:
>https://github.com/Gcenx/WineskinServer/releases
>
>The old path for OpenBUGS and R2OpenBUGS for older versions of wine I
>found
>were: WINE="/usr/local/Cellar/wine/2.0.4/bin/wine"
>WINEPATH="/usr/local/Cellar/wine/2.0.4/bin/winepath"
>OpenBUGS.pgm="/Applications/OpenBUGS323/OpenBUGS.exe"
>
>But trying to do the same, I received the error message: "Error in
>bugs(spp.data, inits, params, "model1.txt", debug = T, n.chains = nc, :
>*unused
>argument (OpenBUGS.pgm = bugs)"*
>
>Part of my confusion is what the difference is between the arguments
>"wine"
>and "winepath". There is also an argument "newWINE" that says: "Use new
>versions of Wine that have ‘winepath’ utility", but I don't know if my
>version of wine has this, and how this argument is then written.
>
>If I go to the "get info" on where my wineskin app is on my computer,
>the
>path is (while redacting my name)
>"/Users/firstname_lastname/Applications/Wineskin/Wineskin-2.9.0.7.app".
>Maybe this would work? But I don't know if this would be in the
>argument
>for wine, or winepath.
>
>I think perhaps if I can adapt the path, it will work. But I'm not sure
>exactly what is needed, particularly for the new version of wine for
>MacOS
>Catalina, and if the old wine arguments even work with the new version
>of
>wine. If anyone could help I would sincerely appreciate it. Thanks!!

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