[R] rjags cannot find JAGS-4.0.0

[Margaret Donald]

1. Despite being in R with administrative rights  the library "rjags" loads
in a temporary location.

> install.packages("rjags", dependencies=TRUE,
+       lib= "C:/Users/Margaret Donald/Documents/R/win-library/3.2")
trying URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/rjags_4-4.zip
'
Content type 'application/zip' length 525871 bytes (513 KB)
downloaded 513 KB

package ‘rjags’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
        C:\Users\Margaret
Donald\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpMzv76s\downloaded_packages
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2. Cannot find JAGS-4.0.0 which is in C;\programs\JAGS\JAGS-4.0.0.  How do
I get R to see JAGS-4.0.0
> library(rjags)
Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rjags', details:
  call: fun(libname, pkgname)
  error: Failed to locate any version of JAGS version 4

The rjags package is just an interface to the JAGS library
Make sure you have installed JAGS-4.x.y.exe (for any x >=0, y>=0) from
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mcmc-jags/files

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘rjags’
> library(R2jags)
Loading required package: rjags
Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rjags', details:
  call: fun(libname, pkgname)
  error: Failed to locate any version of JAGS version 4

The rjags package is just an interface to the JAGS library
Make sure you have installed JAGS-4.x.y.exe (for any x >=0, y>=0) from
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mcmc-jags/files

Error: package ‘rjags’ could not be loaded
>

Regards,
Margaret Donald
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Margaret Donald
Post Doctoral researcher
University of New South Wales
margaret.donald at unsw.edu.au
0405 834 550

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