[R] R2WinBUGS and calling WinBUGS in Crossover/WINE

[Ben Bolker]

Kenneth Benoit <kbenoit <at> tcd.ie> writes:

> 
> Hi there - I have a question for any of you who use R2WinBUGS to call 
> WinBUGS using the useWINE option in that package.
> 
> I have Codeweaver's Crossover emulator installed on my Intel Mac with 
> WinBUGS working fine if I start it from Crossover.  But there is 
> supposed to be a way to start it directly from a command line, which I 
> could pass to the R2WinBUGS using the bugs(..., useWINE="something") 
> argument.
> 
> Has anyone tried this yet?  Thanks!
> 

   useWINE=TRUE.  You may have to set some environment
variables (e.g. WINE is the path to your WINE executable).
It's supposed to just work out of the box.  I have some
fixes that I've been meaning to upload to complement
the existing stuff, but haven't.  If you run into
trouble drop me a line.

 Ben Bolker