In Linux, use jags() to call Jags instead of using bugs() to call OpenBugs

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Douglas Anderton informed us that, in a Linux system, you can’t call OpenBugs from R using bugs() from the R2Winbugs package. Instead, you should call Jags using jags() from the R2jags package.

P.S. Not the Rotter’s Club guy.

4 thoughts on “In Linux, use jags() to call Jags instead of using bugs() to call OpenBugs”

  1. I installed R 2.11 and when tried to install R2Winbugs package from the menu there was no R2Winbugs package!
    I had to install it by downloading from the site myself. Is there any reason for this? Any incompatibility issue with new version of R?

    regards,
    Manoel
    ps.: the same with ARM package.

  2. Manoel: I think it has to do with compatibility with Linux. But you can just use R2jags.

    P.S. I just checked, and arm seems to be there.

  3. Manoel: did you try looking for R2WinBUGS
    rather than R2Winbugs? R is
    case-sensitive … you need WINE, too, but
    many people use R2WinBUGS via WINE on various
    flavors of Linux.

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