Retrieving samples when ussing BRugs.

Hi Sacha,

I was referring to the BRugs package, where I usually proceed as follows:

result = BRugsFit (...)

param_samples = samplesSample("param")    (1)

But (1) takes a long time for big chains. So my question was specific to
BRugs, if there an alternative way to get the samples.

openbugs() mentioned by you seems to be from R2WinBUGS that I have never
used. I'll try that. Thanks for the suggestion.

Best,
Thiago

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Sacha Epskamp<sacha.epskamp at gmail.com>wrote:

If you obtain an output object with openbugs(), e.g.:

samples<- openbugs( ... )

Then this is a list with all the parameters and samples. See
names(samples). You can obtain the samples in a list with:

samples[['sims.list']]

Is this what you mean?

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Thiago Guerrera<thigm85 at gmail.com>  wrote:

Hello R users,

I have used the R package BRugs in some applications but one thing that
annoy me is the functions to retrieve samples ("samplesSample") or

summary

statistics ("samplesStats"). They take a really long time to return the
values if the size of the chains in question is moderate, for example
10.000 samples. Does this happens with every one or there is a better way
to obtain such values?

Best
--
Thiago Guerrera.

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