Frank (or anyone else), can you offer any comments comparing runjags,
R2jags, rjags ?

I couldn't find any vignettes, nothing except a brief mention on Task Views.

Kevin


On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell@vanderbilt.edu
> wrote:

> Have you tried the rjags package which uses the jags system?  It is much
> more integrated into R and works quite well.  It uses the same modeling
> language as BUGS.  It is also better supported than OpenBUGS.
>
> Frank
>
> Bill Halteman wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>  I am trying to figure out how to use R-Coda with the output from
>> OpenBugs. I have installed and loaded the packages BRugs and R2WinBUGS.  I
>> have successfully run a simple Bayes model in WinBUGS using R2WinBUGS'
>> "bugs" and have used "read.bugs" to build the coda object.  I can
>> successfully switch to OpenBugs and run the same model and get the basic
>> summary back.  However, I cannot build the coda object.  From what I have
>> read "read.openbugs" should do the trick.  However, I have discovered the
>> current version of OpenBUGS (v 3.03) doesn't write any output files in spite
>> of setting codaPkg=TRUE in the "bugs" call.  "Str(openbugs.object)" reveals
>> a large collection of elements, one of which is an array that contains the
>> MCMC chains.  Is there a function to build the coda object?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
>>
>> Bill Halteman
>>
>>
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