How to connect R and WinBUGS/OpenBUGS/LinBUGS in Linux in Feb. 2009
Tobias, this looks great! I'm new to Linux, and I've only installed packages from within R with install.packages(). I'm guessing that I should unzip ROpenBUGS to the following path: /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ ...just checking because I'm new and don't want to do it wrong. Thanks. PS This really looks great. Any thought to making this a permanently available package on CRAN?
Tobias Verbeke-4 wrote:
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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