Frank (or anyone else), can you offer any comments comparing runjags, R2jags, rjags ? I couldn't find any vignettes, nothing except a brief mention on Task Views. Kevin On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell@vanderbilt.edu> wrote:> Have you tried the rjags package which uses the jags system? It is much > more integrated into R and works quite well. It uses the same modeling > language as BUGS. It is also better supported than OpenBUGS. > > Frank > > Bill Halteman wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I am trying to figure out how to use R-Coda with the output from >> OpenBugs. I have installed and loaded the packages BRugs and R2WinBUGS. I >> have successfully run a simple Bayes model in WinBUGS using R2WinBUGS' >> "bugs" and have used "read.bugs" to build the coda object. I can >> successfully switch to OpenBugs and run the same model and get the basic >> summary back. However, I cannot build the coda object. From what I have >> read "read.openbugs" should do the trick. However, I have discovered the >> current version of OpenBUGS (v 3.03) doesn't write any output files in spite >> of setting codaPkg=TRUE in the "bugs" call. "Str(openbugs.object)" reveals >> a large collection of elements, one of which is an array that contains the >> MCMC chains. Is there a function to build the coda object? >> >> Thanks in advance for any suggestions, >> >> Bill Halteman >> >> > -- > Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine > Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
We use it on Linux - here's our how-to: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/JAGSInstallExample Frank Kevin Wright wrote:> Frank (or anyone else), can you offer any comments comparing runjags, > R2jags, rjags ? > > I couldn't find any vignettes, nothing except a brief mention on Task Views. > > Kevin > > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Frank E Harrell Jr > <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu <mailto:f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu>> wrote: > > Have you tried the rjags package which uses the jags system? It is > much more integrated into R and works quite well. It uses the same > modeling language as BUGS. It is also better supported than OpenBUGS. > > Frank > > > Bill Halteman wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am trying to figure out how to use R-Coda with the output > from OpenBugs. I have installed and loaded the packages BRugs > and R2WinBUGS. I have successfully run a simple Bayes model in > WinBUGS using R2WinBUGS' "bugs" and have used "read.bugs" to > build the coda object. I can successfully switch to OpenBugs > and run the same model and get the basic summary back. However, > I cannot build the coda object. From what I have read > "read.openbugs" should do the trick. However, I have discovered > the current version of OpenBUGS (v 3.03) doesn't write any > output files in spite of setting codaPkg=TRUE in the "bugs" > call. "Str(openbugs.object)" reveals a large collection of > elements, one of which is an array that contains the MCMC > chains. Is there a function to build the coda object? > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions, > > Bill Halteman > > > -- > Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine > Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org <mailto:R-help at r-project.org> mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >-- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University