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

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

Thanks Rodney, that so simple "mac" solution worked:

open Applications/CrossOver/WinBUGS14.app

starts Crossover and opens WinBUGS.  So if I can pass that argument to 
R2WinBUGS then it seems like it should work!

Ken


Rodney Sparapani wrote:
> Ahha... 
> Finally, something that I can answer.  If I'm at the terminal command 
> prompt, and type:
> open /Applications/OpenBUGS\ 2.2.0/winbugs.exe
> then, first DarWINE starts, then XDarwin or whatever it is called, and then
> OpenBUGS!!!
> 
> The Fonz gives Richie motorcycle riding advice
> Fonzie:  ... where a helmet and never smile!
> Richie:  Why not?
> Fonzie:  You get bugs in your teeth
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Benoit [mailto:kb...@tc...]
> Sent: Tue 12/12/2006 4:42 PM
> To: Rodney Sparapani
> Cc: gre...@bf...; Ben Bolker; 
> bug...@li...
> Subject: Re: [R] R2WinBUGS and calling WinBUGS in Crossover MAC BETA
> 
> 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
> 
>