[R] Running R2WinBUGS on Linux using Wine

[Quin Wills]

Hello all

(1) My departmental IT guru has installed the latest Wine (0.9.48) on a 
well maintained Fedora 7 server, so that I can run WinBUGS from R via 
R2WinBUGS (this seems like the only real option for running BUGS from R 
on a Linux platform?)

(2) WinBUGS seems to run okay, except for the following output errors:
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fixme:keyboard:RegisterHotKey (0x10024,13,0x00000002,3): stub
fixme:ole:GetHGlobalFromILockBytes cbSize is 13824
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {0003000a-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 
not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {0003000a-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 
not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object 
{0003000a-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} could be created for context 0x3
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(3) I found a previous posting suggesting that this is a Wine related 
issue, which doesn't seem too major, and is likely to be fixed (pasted 
below).  As I'm not too technical, I am naturally concerned that this 
problem might be doing horrible things with my analysis, which I haven't 
spotted yet. This mailing is just a sanity check with any of you gurus 
out there - for words of wisdom, advice, and perhaps what to watch out for.

Thanks,
Quin


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From: Uwe Ligges <ligges_at_statistik.uni-dortmund.de 
<mailto:ligges_at_statistik.uni-dortmund.de?Subject=Re:%20%5BR%5D%20error%20in%20using%20R2WinBUGS%20on%20Ubuntu%206.10%20Linux>> 

Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:54:54 +0200

meyerjp_at_jmu.edu wrote:
 > I am trying to run WinBUGS 1.4 from the Ubuntu 6.10 Linux 
distribution. I am using the R2WinBUGS packages with the source file 
listed below. WinBUGS appears to run properly, but I get the following 
message after WinBUGS starts in WINE. Does anyone know what may be 
causing this error and what the correction may be? 
<http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/07/07/22080.html#22084qlink1>
/> /
/> Thanks /
/> /
*/> ERROR MESSAGE: /
*/> /
/> fixme:ole:GetHGlobalFromILockBytes cbSize is 13824 /
/> err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {0003000a-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 
not registered /
/> err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {0003000a-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 
not registered /
/> err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object 
{0003000a-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} could be created for context 0x3 /
/> fixme:keyboard:RegisterHotKey (0x10032,13,0x00000002,3): stub /
/> fixme:ntdll:RtlNtStatusToDosErrorNoTeb no mapping for 8000000a /
/> err:ole:local_server_thread Failure during ConnectNamedPipe 317 /

This is wine, not R2WinBUGS nor WinBUGS nor R, I fear, and the "fixme:" 
sounds promising that things go away in a more recent version of wine...

Uwe Ligges
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