Uwe Ligges wrote:
Hi all,
I've managed to get JAGS working on my Ubuntu Hardy Linux with a 32-bit
computer and AMD processors using R 2.8.1. JAGS is great. I've read
that
JAGS is the fastest, but that hasn't been my experience. At any rate, I
have more experience with WinBUGS under Windows and would like a
version of
that working as well.
It seems like I've read a lot on the subject and tried a lot, but haven't
managed to get BUGS to work yet. The most success I've had is to install
WinBUGS or OpenBUGS using this method:
http://www.math.aau.dk/~slb/kurser/bayes-08/install.html
What you also need to know is that you need to open Wine and add a
drive. Although Z is recommended, I haven't been able to specify it,
but have
gotten a D drive to work, using:
wine D:/opt/OpenBUGS/winbugs.exe
Using this method, OpenBUGS opens. Now, to be able to open it with
R. I've
read all sorts of discussions about BRugs (which is no longer on CRAN,
but
old versions can still be found), rbugs, and R2WinBUGS (which I'm used to
using on Windows with WinBUGS). Some people say R2WinBUGS cannot run
OpenBUGS on Linux, some claim they've done it (I think). It seems the
same
thing with everything else. I've tried making the linbugs and cbugs file
recommended elsewhere online. It's all very confusing.
For short: It is quite unlikely that BRugs / OpenBUGS (which is called
LinBUGS under Linux) works natively under your Linux (although it might
work under very specific settings).
As every now and then I get offline requests from people who stumble on
this thread
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp08/archive/132855.html
to give details on how I got OpenBUGS running under GNU/Linux,
I made a stripped-down package that does just that. The approach is
very, very basic and I only tested this on a few machines and
distributions, but if it can be useful to anyone, I temporarily
put it up at
http://www.openanalytics.be/rOpenBUGS_0.0-1.tar.gz
Best,
Tobias
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