Tobias, this looks great! I'm new to Linux, and I've only installed packages from within R with install.packages(). I'm guessing that I should unzip ROpenBUGS to the following path:
/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ ...just checking because I'm new and don't want to do it wrong. Thanks. PS This really looks great. Any thought to making this a permanently available package on CRAN? Tobias Verbeke-4 wrote: > > Uwe Ligges wrote: > >>> Hi all, >>> I've managed to get JAGS working on my Ubuntu Hardy Linux with a 32-bit >>> computer and AMD processors using R 2.8.1. JAGS is great. I've read >>> that >>> JAGS is the fastest, but that hasn't been my experience. At any rate, I >>> have more experience with WinBUGS under Windows and would like a >>> version of >>> that working as well. >>> >>> It seems like I've read a lot on the subject and tried a lot, but >>> haven't >>> managed to get BUGS to work yet. The most success I've had is to >>> install >>> WinBUGS or OpenBUGS using this method: >>> http://www.math.aau.dk/~slb/kurser/bayes-08/install.html >>> >>> What you also need to know is that you need to open Wine and add a >>> drive. Although Z is recommended, I haven't been able to specify it, >>> but have >>> gotten a D drive to work, using: >>> >>> wine D:/opt/OpenBUGS/winbugs.exe >>> >>> Using this method, OpenBUGS opens. Now, to be able to open it with >>> R. I've >>> read all sorts of discussions about BRugs (which is no longer on CRAN, >>> but >>> old versions can still be found), rbugs, and R2WinBUGS (which I'm used >>> to >>> using on Windows with WinBUGS). Some people say R2WinBUGS cannot run >>> OpenBUGS on Linux, some claim they've done it (I think). It seems the >>> same >>> thing with everything else. I've tried making the linbugs and cbugs >>> file >>> recommended elsewhere online. It's all very confusing. >> >> For short: It is quite unlikely that BRugs / OpenBUGS (which is called >> LinBUGS under Linux) works natively under your Linux (although it might >> work under very specific settings). > > As every now and then I get offline requests from people who stumble on > this thread > > http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp08/archive/132855.html > > to give details on how I got OpenBUGS running under GNU/Linux, > I made a stripped-down package that does just that. The approach is > very, very basic and I only tested this on a few machines and > distributions, but if it can be useful to anyone, I temporarily > put it up at > > http://www.openanalytics.be/rOpenBUGS_0.0-1.tar.gz > > Best, > Tobias > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-connect-R-and-WinBUGS-OpenBUGS-LinBUGS-in-Linux-in-Feb.-2009-tp22058716p22091812.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.