WinBUGS on OS X through R2WinBUGS?

On 21/01/2008, at 10:00 PM, Roger Levy wrote:

Has anyone gotten WinBUGS to work on OS X through R2WinBUGS?  I have
managed to get WinBUGS 1.4 to work on my Intel Mac (I run Tiger) through
Darwine, but cannot get the bugs() command in R2WinBUGS to work.  I
follow the directions in Andrew Gelman's example here:

  http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/bugsR/runningbugs.html

I did some post some messages about this a few weeks back on both BUGS 
and CrossoverMac discussion lists.  (look for messages about winepath)

As you discovered Winbugs will run happily in using WINE or the 
CrossoverMac packaged version of it.

However, the WINE support in R2WinBUGS is thoroughly broken.  It depends 
on undocumented and unsupported features of particular versions of 
WINE.  These have been changed in recent versions of WINE and now that 
bit of R2WinBUGS needs a complete rewrite.  I can see what needs to be 
done, I just need to find the time

You can run BUGS models in JAGS which now has a working R interface 
package - rjags.  I am hoping to get a fat MacOS binary done for this in 
the next few days and Martyn Plummer says he will put it on the JAGS 
site at http://www-fis.iarc.fr/~martyn/software/jags/.  It is even 
possible to use the standard 32 bit R distribution and a 32 bit build of 
rjags to run a model on 64bit JAGS on a Core 2 Duo Mac.

It would still be nice to have Winbugs available to generate a 
comparison with results from JAGS.