[Bugs-r-devel] updater control in BRugs

[Dawn W. <dwo...@in...>]

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The modelDisable function in BRugs allows the user to turn off =
particular
updaters during model fitting.  It is hard to tell whether it does what =
it is
intended to do, however, since there is no function that lists all of =
the
currently enabled updaters.  How hard would it be to write such a =
function?
Alternatively, we could provide a function that is the equivalent of
infoUpdatersbyName or infoNodeMethods in the scripting language.  Here =
is my
(incomplete) attempt at such a function, which is intended to write the
updaters to the buffer file and then display that file.  It is patterned
after the modelModules function in BRugs.

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infoUpdatersbyName <- function(){

   command <- "BugsEmbed.UpdatersByName"

   .C("CmdInterpreter", command, nchar(command), integer(1), =
PACKAGE=3D"BRugs")

   buffer <- file.path(tempdir(), "buffer.txt")

   file.show(buffer)

}

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The information never gets written to the buffer, however.  Any ideas?

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Thank you!

Dawn