[R-sig-Fedora] RJAGS Installation Issues

[Martyn Plummer]

The primary source of RPMS for JAGS is the repository created by Lars Vilhuber:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/cornell_vrdc/

It is true that Lars does not create RPMs for Fedora, presumably because they do not use it at Cornell. I had not thought about this before. I do use Fedora but I always install JAGS from source.

I am a little concerned to realise that there is a different RPM for each major release of R (i.e. we have jags, jags2, jags3, etc.) This means that Marc unwittingly pointed to a very old version of JAGS. In addition, if you install the jags3 RPM then you will not get a yum update the day I release JAGS 4.0.0 (and the day is coming, trust me).

Martyn

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From: r-sig-fedora-bounces at r-project.org [r-sig-fedora-bounces at r-project.org] on behalf of Martin Maechler [maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch]
Sent: 06 October 2014 16:54
To: r-sig-fedora at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Fedora] RJAGS Installation Issues

A few months ago,  Eric asked about this for CentOS 6:
 https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-fedora/2014-April/000310.html

and was kindly helped by Marc Schwartz.
OTOH, we are running Fedora 19,  currently upgrading to Fedora 20.

The RPM find link for  'jags-devel' which Marc provided really seems
to cater to CentOS or RHEL 5,
but not directly to any newer Fedora.

Also there, I'd ideally  (tell our sys.admins to) use
   yum install jags-devel
 so  jags should stay updated and will also be added to the "upgrade
procedures for next time"
 but yum above does not find anything at least not with further hand
holding, i.e., possibly by specifying a specific mirror.

Do any of you have experience here and/or a recommendation?

Thank you in advance,
Martin

--
Martin Maechler
ETH Zurich

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