R help - Jan 2005 - rbugs in linux

Hi,

I am trying to run the "schools" example in the rbugs library (running
winbugs in linux via wine-20041201) but keep getting the following 
error. Note I have tested wine and winbugs to confirm that both are 
operational.

Error in runBugs(bugs, script.file, n.chains, workingDir, useWine, wine,  :
        BUGS stopped before getting to coda.


The command I'm using is:

schools.sim <- rbugs(data = schools.data, inits, parameters, 
schools.bug, n.chains = 2, n.iter = 1000, workingDir = 
'/mnt/win_d/Rwork/daynightR', bugsWorkingDir = 
'/home/jonsen/.wine/drive_c', useWine = TRUE, wine = 
'/usr/local/bin/wine', debug = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

-- 

Ian Jonsen, Postdoctoral Fellow

Biology Dept., Dalhousie University
801 LSC, 1355 Oxford St., Halifax, NS B3H 4J1 Canada
voice: 1-902-494-3910, fax: 1-902-494-3736
jonsen at mathstat.dal.ca

On my machine  (SuSE 9.0) the following works.

schools.sim <- rbugs(data=schools.data, inits, parameters,
                     schools.bug, n.chains=3, n.iter=1000,
                     workingDir="/home/ijw/.wine/fake_windows/temp",
                     bugs="/windows/c/Program 
Files/WinBUGS14/WinBUGS14.exe",
                     bugsWorkingDir="c:/temp",
                     useWine=TRUE,
                     debug=TRUE)


I found that you have to put the *nix path to the winBUGS binary
rather than the windows path (which is suggested by the rbugs
article in RNEWS).

If you use

denug(runBugs) you can examine the call to winbugs that is made (and
try it from a command line).

Ian Wilson


Ian Jonsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to run the "schools" example in the rbugs library
(running
> winbugs in linux via wine-20041201) but keep getting the following 
> error. Note I have tested wine and winbugs to confirm that both are 
> operational.
>
> Error in runBugs(bugs, script.file, n.chains, workingDir, useWine, 
> wine,  :
>        BUGS stopped before getting to coda.
>
>
> The command I'm using is:
>
> schools.sim <- rbugs(data = schools.data, inits, parameters, 
> schools.bug, n.chains = 2, n.iter = 1000, workingDir = 
> '/mnt/win_d/Rwork/daynightR', bugsWorkingDir = 
> '/home/jonsen/.wine/drive_c', useWine = TRUE, wine = 
> '/usr/local/bin/wine', debug = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)
>
> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>