Hi Paul,

I know I'm not directly answering your question, but have you looked at
using JAGS (Just Another Gibbs Sampler)? It is a dialect of BUGS that runs
native on a Mac. JAGS was created because won't run on a Mac/Linux/Unix
without an emulator.

http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net/

Your BUGS model would probably require slight modification, but you still
could call everything through R with one of several packages such as rjags.

Good luck,

Richard Ericson

PS Depending upon your needs, the new (first release on 1 Sept 2012) Stan
program might be worth checking out. It can also be run through R.


On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 4:30 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>wrote:

>
> On Feb 10, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Paul Ossenbruggen wrote:
>
>          I installed XCode, XQuartz and OpenBUGS on my Mac using WINE.
>> When I tried to test my installation I received the following error.
>>
>
> It's hard for me to believe that any package designed to be used on a
> Windows emulator would be able to access XCode facilities. I'm always
> learning new things however.
>
>
>
>> The following code is an example from R Help bugs:
>>
>>  schools.sim <- bugs(data, inits,
>>>
>> +       parameters, model.file, n.chains=3,
>> +       n.iter=1000,
>> +       n.thin=10,n.burnin=10,bin=1,
>> +       DIC=FALSE,debug=TRUE,
>> +       useWINE = TRUE,
>> +       program = "OpenBUGS",
>> +       bugs.directory="c:/**ProgramFiles/OpenBUGS/")
>> Loading required package: BRugs
>> Error in openbugs(data, inits, parameters.to.save, model.file, n.chains,
>>  :
>>  BRugs is required
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE,
>> logical.return = TRUE,  :
>>  there is no package called ‘BRugs’
>>
>>
> I'm guessing not very many people on this list are running R under WINE.
> There is a perfectly fine version of R running under MacOS. Why would we
> want to slow it down by running under WINE. (You are certainly free to slow
> it down, but you really should post a complete problem description in any
> case.)
>
> ?sessionInfo
> ?libaryPaths
>
>
>
>
>>
>>         If correct, BRugs does not exist for R 2.15.1.
>>
>
> Not on your machine in the places your setup is looking for it, anyway.
>
>
>
>>         Is there a means to get arrange this problem?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
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