Re: [Bugs-r-devel] [R] R2WinBUGS and calling WinBUGS in Crossover MAC BETA

[Kenneth B. <kb...@tc...>]

Hi - That, plus the difficulty I encountered in getting Darwine to work 
at all, led me to remove it and to install Crossover Mac Beta instead. 
It works just great with WinBUGS 1.4, running it quickly and completely 
*except* that first I have to start Crossover and then choose the 
installed WinBUGS from the programs menu to start it.  (and then it pops 
right up and runs fine!)

So the only question seems to be: how to get it started from the command 
line which R2WinBUGS can call??

Ken


Rodney Sparapani wrote:
> 
>> Rodney (can you please join to bugs-r development list) reported that he
>> was able to start OpenBUGS under Intel Mac, but not WinBUGS. Maybe he
>> can say more. 
> Hi Guys:
> 
> Couldn't really follow the discussion.  But, WinBUGS does not work with
> DarWINE, although, OpenBUGS does.  I'm using v. 0.9.21 DP, but this hasn't
> changed going back to about v. 0.9.10 DP.  And, before
> that OpenBUGS doesn't work either.
> I've spent a lot of time trying to
> figure it out, but it's madness.  WINE and R are written, more or less,
> from the Linux standpoint.  Compiling R even on industry-standard
> Solaris can be tricky and WINE on Solaris is virtually impossible.
> Mac OS X adds its own wrinkles.  Many of the infrastucture that R requires
> are already there, but often R chooses to install a slightly different
> compiler and/or library and you are pulling out your hair trying to 
> figure out
> what you are supposed to do and why.  Of course, a professional Mac
> developer would figure this out in a couple of minutes, but we 
> statisticians
> must suffer for our art :)
> 
> And to add insult to injury, I tried to subscribe to the mailing list
> on sourceforge, but I couldn't figure it out.  There is this obnoxious
> adware that sourceforge employs that covers the search dialog.  No
> matter what I did in Firefox 2.0, I couldn't get past it.
> 
> Rodney