[R] R2WinBUGS under Linux/WINE fails

[Uwe Ligges]

Harlan Harris wrote:
> Uwe, thanks for helping! After some poking around, I realized that the
> problem was that I had installed OpenBUGS instead of WinBUGS. I did an
> additional installation of WinBUGS, which also runs fine under Wine, and now
> everything seems to work! Thanks!
> 
> To clarify: both the OpenBUGS and WinBUGS distributions run nicely under
> Linux/Wine. However, despite the fact that R2WinBUGS 2.1-14 claims (in
> ?bugs) it can run both OpenBUGS and WinBUGS, this does not seem to be true
> under Linux/Wine. Only WinBUGS currently works with R2WinBUGS, at least for
> me.


This is because BRugs (the interface R2WinBUGS requires for OpenBUGS) 
simply does not work under (most) non-Windows operating systems.

Best,
Uwe




> 
> (I did figure out how to use CODA export from Win/OpenBUGS and the coda
> package to import into R, but it's a bit tedious...)
> 
>  -Harlan
>