A Wrapper Around rjags to Streamline JAGS Analyses
Description
This package provides a set of wrappers around rjags functions to run Bayesian analyses in JAGS (specifically, via libjags). A single function call can control adaptive, burn-in, and sampling MCMC phases, with MCMC chains run in sequence or in parallel. Posterior distributions are automatically summarized (with the ability to exclude some monitored nodes if desired) and functions are available to generate figures based on the posteriors (e.g., predictive check plots, traceplots). Function inputs, argument syntax, and output format are nearly identical to the R2WinBUGS/R2OpenBUGS packages to allow easy switching between MCMC samplers.