validateInstallOpenBUGS: Compare OpenBUGS/R2OpenBUGS execution to results supplied with OpenBUGS

Description

A selected subset of the examples from the OpenBUGS manual is executed and compared to results supplied with the package to validate installation.

Usage

validateInstallOpenBUGS( OpenBUGS.pgm=NULL, useWINE=FALSE, WINE=NULL, newWINE=TRUE, WINEPATH=NULL )

Arguments

OpenBUGS.pgm

See bugs.

useWINE

logical; attempt to use the Wine emulator to run OpenBUGS. Default is FALSE. If WINE is used, the arguments OpenBUGS.pgm and working.directory must be given in form of Linux paths rather than Windows paths (if not NULL).

WINE

Character, path to ‘wine’ binary file, it is tried hard (by a guess and the utilities which and locate) to get the information automatically if not given.

newWINE

Use new versions of Wine that have ‘winepath’ utility

WINEPATH

Character, path to ‘winepath’ binary file, it is tried hard (by a guess and the utilities which and locate) to get the information automatically if not given.

Value

No data returned. Prints match/no match result to console for each example.

Details

Operation system support:

MS Windows Yes
Linux, intel processors Yes, but GUI display and graphics not available.
Mac OS X and Unix Wine emulation via useWINE=TRUE

If useWINE=TRUE is used, all paths (such as working.directory and model.file, must be given in native (Unix) style, but OpenBUGS.pgm can be given in Windows path style (e.g. “c:/Program Files/OpenBUGS/”) or native (Unix) style (e.g. “/path/to/wine/folder/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/OpenBUGS/OpenBUGS321/OpenBUGS.exe”).

References

Gelman, A., Carlin, J.B., Stern, H.S., Rubin, D.B. (2003): Bayesian Data Analysis, 2nd edition, CRC Press.