[R] problem with BRugs
Uwe Ligges
ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Tue Aug 25 15:21:40 CEST 2009
Vitalie S. wrote:
>
>>
>> This is a BUGS error message that indeed tells you that BUGS cannot
>> truncate that density - not related to R at all.
>>
>> Best,
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>
> Yes, indeed, that does not work in OpenBugs as well. Means that
> documentation of Open bugs is incorrect (they are using dnorm there).
> Also "I" works and "T" does not work for any distribution I've tried.
>
> The problem is that BRugs documentation is not mentioning T and C
> operators.
> OpenBugs tels about T and C but not "I". And obviously nothing about
> what T does not work and I should be used instead!
>
> If I didn't know from previous versions about "I" operator I would have
> been stuck with BRugs code.
>
> So I believe this is also a problem of BRugs' documentation. T and C
> should be mentioned there along side with "I".
>
> The guys at OpenBugs obviously now the problem - just new users are
> utterly confused, that's all.
Please report OpenBUGS documentation issues at the OpenBUGS list. I do
not have write access there.
Thank you very much,
Uwe
> Sorry for taking your time.
> And thanks for the port; indeed, great tool.
>
> Vitalie.
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