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...sent state of MCMC and Bayesian methods in R. Following a thread on the mailing list in 2000, I have looked at mcmcpack and Hydra. Three years down the line, is there anything new in this area? I have used both MCSim and WinBUGS in the past. The first one seems promising, but is too focused towards toxicology work, and needs some changes to accomodate sequential Bayesian models. WinBUGS is closed, and runs in windows only. Somebody has posted recently a message in the WinBUGS list asking for feedback on the posibility of developing a Linux version, but that does not seem to be happening anytime so...