Bill Northcott wrote: > On 21/01/2008, at 10:00 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote: >> Fredrik Lundgren wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I recently changed from Win XP to Mac OS X (10.5.1). >>> Is there a way to run Bugs (in any version) in R (R version 2.6.0 >>> (2007-10-03)) on this platform? >>> >> >> Which way to "run Bugs in R" did you use in Windows? >> On MacOS X, a solution that should work but is completely inelegant is >> using the package R2WinBUGS, and running WinBUGS within DarWINE. There >> are some rumors that OpenBUGS development will be forced within the next >> couple of months, but I am not that confident that we will have a >> natively working BRugs version on Mac OS X or Linux this year ... > > I just posted a message about this on r-sig-mac. > > I spent a little time on this late last year. > > WinBUGS runs happily under DarWINE or the commercial package > CrossoverMac. There is nothing inelegant about it.
It is inelegant in at least two points: 1. R2WinBUGS is a mess per se, we all want to use something that runs natively within R, such as BRugs or jags. 2. running the WinBUGS instance in xyz-WINE things does not make things faster and more elegant from my point of view. > > R2WinBUGS is another can of worms. The code to support running WinBUGS > in WINE on Linux or Mac is thoroughly broken. The problem is in the > need to convert Windows paths to UNIX ones. R2WinBUGS does this using > undocumented and unsupported features of some versions of WINE. As is > the way with unsupported features these have been changed on recent > versions of WINE and broken R2WinBUGS. > > The fix is not trivial, and the WINE support stuff in R2WinBUGS needs to > be completely rewritten. I can see what needs to be done, and if I find > the time, I will fix it. Contributions are welcome. I do not touch that xyz...-WINE conversion stuff at all. Best wishes, uwe > You can also use JAGS ( http://www-fis.iarc.fr/~martyn/software/jags/ ) > which has now reached version 1.0.1 and has an R support package rjags. > I hope to post a fat Mac binary for this before the end of the week. In > testing, this works on Leopard with a 32 bit R controlling a 64 bit JAGS > binary which is sort of cool. Now all we need is to be able to run > multiple chains on different CPUs but there are some issues with the > RNGs from R which are used in JAGS. > > Bill Northcott > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
