Re: [Bugs-r-devel] BRugs with OpenBUGS v.3.0.1

[Uwe L. <li...@st...>]

Hi Dawn,

thank you very much for your BRugs port to S-PLUS and the integration of 
OpenBUGS 3.0.1!
I applied some minor tweaks to a couple of files and I am happy for now. 
The new version is in the sourceforge repository (where you already have 
got access permissions).
Can you check it under S-PLUS again, please? Then I'd like to make a 
release on CRAN. Thanks again!

Uwe









Dawn Woodard wrote:
> Dr. Ligges,
>  
> The altered BRugs package source is attached.  It does not include 
> OpenBUGS; I just copied the OpenBUGS from
>  
> http://mathstat.helsinki.fi/openbugs/OpenBUGS.zip
>  
> to the inst subdirectory.
>  
> I also attached a listing of the main suggested changes to the code.  
> The remainder are small changes to the S-PLUS code for compatibility.  
> There are a few functions that I have not yet tested in S-PLUS, such as 
> modelDynamic, modelFactory, and getGraphObj.
>  
> Thank you very much!
> Dawn
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Changes to the S-PLUS Code in the BRugs Package
> 
> Dawn Woodard
> 
>  
> 
> *Changes to R & S code*
> 
>  
> 
>    1. The initialization functions were changed to work with v.3.0.1 of
>       OpenBUGS
>    2. The HTML help files have moved from the docu/ subdirectory of
>       OpenBUGS to the Manuals subdirectory, and so “help.WinBUGS” and
>       “help.BRugs” have been changed accordingly.
>    3. When the DIC stats are obtained from OpenBUGS in the dicStats
>       function, the new version of OpenBUGS has extra lines to give
>       minimum deviance information; the old version of OpenBUGS did not
>       have those lines.  These lines are removed from the buffer.
> 
>  
> 
> *Changes to S code only*
> 
>  
> 
>    1. The “tempdir” function does not exist in S-PLUS.  We are working
>       on creating it.  In the meantime, I defined tempdir to return the
>       working directory.  This is not a permanent solution since then
>       BRugs does not run if the working directory is write-protected;
>       for instance I had to alter the BRugs and BRugsFit examples to get
>       them to run.
>    2. “browseURL” does not exist in S-PLUS.  I am looking into this; in
>       the meantime, the functions “help.BRugs” and “help.WinBUGS” do not
>       work in S-PLUS.
>    3. “scan” does not have a “quiet” option in S-PLUS; this option has
>       been removed
>    4. The function “dev.interactive” does not exist in S-PLUS; calls to
>       this option have been replaced by calls to “interactive”
>    5. writeModel, bugsData, and bugsInits from R2WinBUGS have been
>       updated to work in S-PLUS.  The changes mimic the changes to the
>       corresponding functions in R2WinBUGS
>    6. The “real” function does not exist in S-PLUS, so calls to this
>       function have been replaced by calls to “double”
>    7. Slashes in file path strings are different in S-PLUS than in R
>    8. The “ann” graphical argument is not available in S-PLUS
>    9. S-PLUS gives a warning when the package is built if the last line
>       in a function is an assignment.  A call to “invisible” has been
>       added to the ends of these functions.
>