[R] R2WinBUGS under Linux/WINE fails

[Uwe Ligges]

Harlan Harris wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running wine-1.0.1, OpenBUGS 3.0.3, R 2.9.0, and R2WinBUGS on a Redhat
> Enterprise Linux machine.
> 
> Following various peoples' suggestions...
> 
> This works perfectly (yay!): wine Z:/opt/OpenBUGS/winbugs.exe
> 
> Within R, however, I get this:
> 
> (setup the example from ?bugs, then....)
> 
> R> schools.sim <- bugs(data, inits, parameters, model.file, n.chains=3,
> n.iter=5000,bugs.directory="Z:/opt/OpenBUGS/")
> Error in file(con, "rb") : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(con, "rb") :
>   cannot open file
> '/home/harlan/.wine/dosdevices/z:/opt/OpenBUGS//System/Rsrc/Registry.odc':
> No such file or directory
> Error in bugs.run(n.burnin, bugs.directory, WINE = WINE, useWINE = useWINE,
> :
>   WinBUGS executable does not exist in
> /home/harlan/.wine/dosdevices/z:/opt/OpenBUGS/
> 
> Trying to figure out these path issues:
> 
>> ls /home/harlan/.wine/dosdevices/z:/opt/OpenBUGS/
> BackBUGS.lnk     Compare    Docu      Graph         Lindev
> Ole                Randnumseeds.odc  Std      Updater
> brugs.dll        Correl     Doodle    Host          Manuals
> OpenBUGS.zip       Ranks             Summary  Win
> brugs.so         Dev        Examples  Html          Maps
> Plots              Samples           System   winbugs.exe
> Bugs             Developer  Form      libtaucs.dll  Math
> randnumseeds0.bmp  Script.odc        Test     Xhtml
> classicbugs.exe  Deviance   GeoBUGS   Lin           Monitors
> Randnumseeds.html  Spatial           Text
> 
>> ls /home/harlan/.wine/dosdevices/z:/opt/OpenBUGS//System/Rsrc/Registry.odc
> ls: /home/harlan/.wine/dosdevices/z:/opt/OpenBUGS//System/Rsrc/Registry.odc:
> No such file or directory
> 
> So, the warning message is correct, but the error is not. winbugs.exe
> clearly exists, and I'd expect bugs.run to find it...

So your WinBUGS installation is broken.
Can you please try to reinstall?

BTW, which version of R2WinBUGS are we talking about, the most recent one?


> 
> If I add "program="openbugs"", then I get the warning to install BRugs,
> which no longer exists. (But it's not clear if that's necessary.)

BRugs is available from the CRAN extras repository hosted by Brian 
Ripley. Is BRugs really working on your machine? I've not heared of many 
  working Linux installations.


Best,
Uwe Ligges




> Is it possible to make this work?
> 
> If not, I'm extremely thankful that I can use Bugs under Wine, but I'd
> really prefer to use the R interface if possible!
> 
> Thank you for any guidance!
> 
>  -Harlan
> 
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