[R] R2winBUGS | option to turn off GUI?

[Evan Cooch]

Greetings -

I run a multi-pro server box (GNU/Linux), on which I've installed 
winBUGS under wine. Works fine, and plays nice with r2WinBUGS, provided 
everything is done through a graphical front-end (either by working from 
console, or using a virtual desktop via VNC or equivalent).

However, I'm wondering if there is a way to use R2winBUGS and winBUGS 
such that winBUGS does not spawn any windows - in other words, have R 
and R2winBUGS access the winBUGS 'engine', dump everything to coda 
files, but not generate any windows? I ask because a number of my more 
'remote' users have trouble running a graphical interface to the 
machine. Rather, they'd like to ssh into a shell, run a R script calling 
R2WinBUGS, then sign off. At present, this doesn't work 'cleanly' 
because winBUGS keeps trying to open up a window or two. Which, needless 
to say, doesn't work if you're running things in an ASCII shell from the 
command line.

We've looked at the R2winBUGS docs, and found nothing there (or on 
various drills through what we could find on the web) for how to do this 
- if it is at all possible.

Possible? If so, we'd be delighted to be enlightened on how! ;-)

Thanks very much in advance...