R help - Jun 2007 - Metropolis-Hastings Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Spatstat

I'm testing some different formulations of pairwise interaction point
processes
in Spatstat (version 1.11-6) using R 2.5.0 on a Windows platform and I wish to
simulate them using the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm implemented with Spatstat.
Spatstat utilizes Fortran77 code with the preprocessor RatFor to do the
Metropolis-Hastings MCMC, but the Makefile is more complicated than any I have
worked with.
Any suggestions on how I could get started working with the Fortran code in
conjunction with RatFor is appreciated.

Sincerely,
Kevin

Kevin Packard
Department of Forestry, PhD student
Department of Statistics, MS student
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

Take a look at:  http://sepwww.stanford.edu/software/ratfor.html
and in particular the link there to the original paper by Brian
Kernighan describing ratfor; it is only 14 pages, but it is a model
of clarity of exposition and design.

I wouldn't worry too much about the makefile  -- it probably
knows exactly what to do with ratfor provided you have the
ratfor preprocessor available from the above link, and the rest
of the tools to build from source.

url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger            Roger Koenker
email    rkoenker at uiuc.edu            Department of Economics
vox:     217-333-4558                University of Illinois
fax:       217-244-6678                Champaign, IL 61820


On Jun 6, 2007, at 4:42 PM, Kevin C Packard wrote:
> I'm testing some different formulations of pairwise interaction  
> point processes
> in Spatstat (version 1.11-6) using R 2.5.0 on a Windows platform  
> and I wish to
> simulate them using the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm implemented  
> with Spatstat.
> Spatstat utilizes Fortran77 code with the preprocessor RatFor to do  
> the
> Metropolis-Hastings MCMC, but the Makefile is more complicated than  
> any I have
> worked with.
> Any suggestions on how I could get started working with the Fortran  
> code in
> conjunction with RatFor is appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
> Kevin
>
> Kevin Packard
> Department of Forestry, PhD student
> Department of Statistics, MS student
> Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
> Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
>
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