[R--gR] FW: [BUGS] bugs.R for the new OpenBUGS

[Claus Dethlefsen]

Dear list

The message below from Andrew Gelman posted on the Bugs mailing list is
likely of interest to the gR-community. If you are already subscribed to the
Bugs-list and have seen Andrews' message, just disregard this message.

Best,
Claus
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Assistant Prof. Claus Dethlefsen, PhD
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Aalborg University 
Fredrik Bajers Vej 7G, DK-9220 Aalborg, Denmark
dethlef at math.aau.dk; www.math.aau.dk/~dethlef
Ph: +45 9635 8878; Fax: +45 9815 8129


-----Original Message-----
From: (The BUGS software mailing list) [mailto:BUGS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Andrew Gelman
Sent: 6. oktober 2004 02:16
To: BUGS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [BUGS] bugs.R for the new OpenBUGS

hi all.  i have adapted the bugs.R package (for running Bugs from R) to
work with the new OpenBUGS announced by andrew thomas in his recent
email.  you can just download and extract OpenBUGS into "c:/Program
Files/" and then download the new Bugs.R file and you'll be all
set--just run bugs() using the option version=1.4 for WinBUGS14 or
version=2 for OpenBUGS.

OpenBUGS is very nice, and the new brugs functions supplied by andrew
thomas allow a more convenient implementation (for one thing, you can
see the progress of the simulations in your R window).  but don't remove
your copy of WinBUGS14 yet--in at least one example i've tried, OpenBUGS
is much slower to converge--it must be using a different updating algorithm.

anyway, if anyone has problems with the new bugs.R, just let me know.

yours
andrew

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Andrew Gelman
Professor, Department of Statistics
Professor, Department of Political Science
1255 Amsterdam Ave (at 122 St.), Room 1016
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027-5904
(o) 212-851-2142
(o-fax) 212-851-2164
gelman at stat.columbia.edu
www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman

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