This is slightly off-topic, but there was a discussion about MCMC a couple of weeks ago. OpenBUGS can operate from R, at least in Windows (there are some problems in Linux at the moment). The interface with R is one are that there are plans to work on: it's a bit basic at the moment. Bob -- Bob O'Hara Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics P.O. Box 68 (Gustaf H??llstr??min katu 2b) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki Finland Telephone: +358-9-191 51479 Mobile: +358 50 599 0540 Fax: +358-9-191 51400 WWW: http://www.RNI.Helsinki.FI/~boh/ Journal of Negative Results - EEB: http://www.jnr-eeb.org -------- Original Message -------- Subject: OpenBUGS Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:53:30 +0100 From: Andrew Thomas <ant at RNI.HELSINKI.FI> Reply-To: Andrew Thomas <ant at RNI.HELSINKI.FI> To: BUGS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK We would like to announce that OpenBUGS an open source version of BUGS is now available and has its own web page at http://mathstat.helsinki.fi/openbugs/ Eventually the OpenBUGS code base will replace v1.4 of WinBUGS Enjoy Andrew Thomas