Search the most likely locations for JAGS to be installed on the
users system, based on the operating system, and return the most
likely path to try. Where multiple installs exist, findjags will
attempt to return the path to the install with the highest version
number. For Unix systems, calling jags using 'jags' requires the
jags binary to be in the search path, which may be specified in your
user '.Profile' if necessary (the JAGS executable is also looked for
in the default install location of /usr/local/bin/jags if popen
support is enabled).
the operating system type. There is probably no reason
to want to change this...
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for Windows only, the path to a folder (or vector of
folders) which contains another folder with name containing 'JAGS',
where the JAGS executable(s) are to be found. findjags() will attempt
to find the highest version, assuming that the vers
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provided for compatibility with deprecated arguments.
Value
A path or command for the most likely location of the desired JAGS
executable on the system. On unix this will always be 'jags', on Windows
for example "C:/Program Files/JAGS/bin/jags-terminal.exe" or
"C:/Program Files/JAGS/JAGS-1.0.0/bin/jags-terminal.exe"