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

[Rodney S. <rsp...@mc...>]

Kenneth Benoit wrote:
> OK - the plot thickens...
>
> open Applications/CrossOver/WinBUGS14.app /par script.txt
>
> does *not* work because Apple did not program its magical "open" 
> command (which is designed to be the command-line equivalent of 
> double-clicking an icon) to allow command-line arguments following the 
> name of the program.
>
> There is an open-x11 equivalent for opening X11 apps, and the lack of 
> a command line seems to have made this almost unusable for many 
> people.  I  found therefore that someone had written a version which 
> allowed arguments:
>
> http://xanana.ucsc.edu/Library/init/zsh/man/html/open-x11.html
>
> but I could not find any equivalent for the plain "open".
>
> A workaround would be to hard-wire the excecution of script.txt  into 
> WinBUGS14.app itself, either through Mac OS/X or something in WinBUGS...
>
> Ken
Hi Gang:

I don't see an obvious solution.  First of all, if you want to run a script
in OpenBUGS, then the command is:
open bugs.exe

What happens here is, LaunchServices looks at the file and determines which
application is necessary to run it; in this case DarWINE.

But, you still run into the problem that no command line arguments are
allowed.  Also, open-x11 doesn't actually do anything.  open-x11
is a part of OS X and this ZSH variant just works around some bugs.  But,
basically, X11 applications are already built with a command line interface
to begin with, so there isn't any magic super-glue necessary.  The main guts
of the function are towards the end:
"$@" &

The problem that we are seeing is a little bit different.  Mac applications
were never launched from the command-line because the Mac never had a 
command
line.  So, all open does is launch the application.  But, some applications,
R for example, can be launched from the command-line with arguments.  I took
a quick look at the R script that manages this, but I couldn't figure 
out how
it does it.  I'm guessing that when it was ported from Linux it had all the
necessary command-line stuff so the transition was easy.

Perhaps this is a question for the DarWINE or R-SIG-Mac lists as we are all
clueless.

Rodney