[R] BRugs Error

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 10/02/13 21:43, David Winsemius wrote:
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> On Feb 10, 2013, at 12:28 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
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>> On 10.02.2013 21:18, 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.
>>>
>>>     If correct, BRugs does not exist for R 2.15.1.
>>>
>>>     Is there a means to get arrange this problem?
>>
>> Please install BRugs from sources, a Mac binary is not available on CRAN.
>>
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> If he is doing this with WINE doesn't he need a Windows version.

Of what?

In theory BRugs on Mac OS X could talk to OpenBUGS running the latter 
under WINE.  Except on 32-bit Windows, BRugs works by running a helper 
executable that is linked to OpenBUGS.  So that helper would need to be 
compiled under Windows and be run through WINE.  Just installing BRugs 
from the sources on OS X would not achieve that: you would need to build 
BugsHelper under Windows (possibly via WINE) and alter the BRugs sources 
to run it via WINE.

As others have said on R-sig-mac, it would be almost certainly be 
simpler to modify your task to run using JAGS via rjags, and most likely 
simpler to run BRugs under R for Windows using a Windows emulator (WINE 
might suffice).

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>
>> Best,
>> Uwe Ligges
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>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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/")
>
> Is there a missing space in that path?
>


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