[R] Running R2WinBUGS on Linux using Wine

[Uwe Ligges]

Quin Wills wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> (1) My departmental IT guru has installed the latest Wine (0.9.48) on a 
> well maintained Fedora 7 server, so that I can run WinBUGS from R via 
> R2WinBUGS (this seems like the only real option for running BUGS from R 
> on a Linux platform?)
> (2) WinBUGS seems to run okay, except for the following output errors:
> === === ===
> fixme:keyboard:RegisterHotKey (0x10024,13,0x00000002,3): stub
> fixme:ole:GetHGlobalFromILockBytes cbSize is 13824
> err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {0003000a-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 
> not registered
> err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {0003000a-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 
> not registered
> err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object 
> {0003000a-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} could be created for context 0x3
> === === ===
> 
> (3) I found a previous posting suggesting that this is a Wine related 
> issue, which doesn't seem too major, and is likely to be fixed (pasted 
> below).  As I'm not too technical, I am naturally concerned that this 
> problem might be doing horrible things with my analysis, which I haven't 
> spotted yet. This mailing is just a sanity check with any of you gurus 
> out there - for words of wisdom, advice, and perhaps what to watch out for.

No words of wisdom, my statement is the same as before, this is some 
wine (running WinBUGS) related problem. You posted to an R mailing list, 
but not to a wine mailing list.

Best,
Uwe





> Thanks,
> Quin
> 
> 
> === === ===
> From: Uwe Ligges <ligges_at_statistik.uni-dortmund.de 
> <mailto:ligges_at_statistik.uni-dortmund.de?Subject=Re:%20%5BR%5D%20error%20in%20using%20R2WinBUGS%20on%20Ubuntu%206.10%20Linux>> 
> 
> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:54:54 +0200
> 
> meyerjp_at_jmu.edu wrote:
>  > I am trying to run WinBUGS 1.4 from the Ubuntu 6.10 Linux 
> distribution. I am using the R2WinBUGS packages with the source file 
> listed below. WinBUGS appears to run properly, but I get the following 
> message after WinBUGS starts in WINE. Does anyone know what may be 
> causing this error and what the correction may be? 
> <http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/07/07/22080.html#22084qlink1>
> /> /
> /> Thanks /
> /> /
> */> ERROR MESSAGE: /
> */> /
> /> fixme:ole:GetHGlobalFromILockBytes cbSize is 13824 /
> /> err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {0003000a-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 
> not registered /
> /> err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {0003000a-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 
> not registered /
> /> err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object 
> {0003000a-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} could be created for context 0x3 /
> /> fixme:keyboard:RegisterHotKey (0x10032,13,0x00000002,3): stub /
> /> fixme:ntdll:RtlNtStatusToDosErrorNoTeb no mapping for 8000000a /
> /> err:ole:local_server_thread Failure during ConnectNamedPipe 317 /
> 
> This is wine, not R2WinBUGS nor WinBUGS nor R, I fear, and the "fixme:" 
> sounds promising that things go away in a more recent version of wine...
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> === === ===
> 
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