BRugs under Linux?

Mon, May 17, 2010 9:46 AM #

Hello.

In this post:

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/Rhelp10/2010-March/233815.html

Uwe Ligges suggests using BRugs rather than R2WinBUGS under windows.  He 
also notes that it is not in the main CRAN repository, but it is in 
"extras" which is a default repository under windows.

I have OpenBUGS 3.1.0 (the latest that has a native Linux version  which 
is no longer called linBUGS) installed on my Linux box and would like to 
interact with it from R.  I see posts on this from 2009, but these 
predate the 3.1.0 version, so I'm wonering if there is anything new here.

Is BRugs the recommended approach from Linux?  If so, the required 
repository is not a default on my installation.  What is the address of 
the repository where this will be found?  If BRugs is not the best 
solution from Linux, can anyone suggest a better alternative?

Note that I also know about jags and have that installed also, but until 
I become a bit more familiar with this software I'm starting from BUGS.

Kevin

Kevin E. Thorpe
Biostatistician/Trialist, Knowledge Translation Program
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto
email: kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca  Tel: 416.864.5776  Fax: 416.864.3016

Uwe Ligges

Tue, May 18, 2010 8:48 AM #

On 17.05.2010 18:46, Kevin E. Thorpe wrote:

OpenBUGS 3.0.3 (which is linked in BRugs) did not work under Linux (at 
least not on arbitrary Linux systems, some people claim to got it 
working), hence there is no such BRugs version for Linux.

Currently, BRugs is being restructured for the new OpenBUGS version 
(thanks to the great help by Chris Jackson) and I am rather confident 
that we get a new BRugs version out within a month or two that *may* 
work under Linux as well. But I cannot yet promise the latter.

Best wishes,
Uwe