R2OpenBUGS

3.2-5

Running OpenBUGS from R

5packages depend

55.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Uwe LiggesFirst published 2011-12-309 releasesCRAN page ↗

Using this package, it is possible to call a BUGS model, summarize inferences and convergence in a table and graph, and save the simulations in arrays for easy access in R.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("R2OpenBUGS", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-r2openbugs

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-R2OpenBUGS

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

4NOTE9OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-patched-linux-x86_64
NOTE r-release-linux-x86_64

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
10 OK · 4 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 90%
References docs: 10%

Downloads

55.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,156 · ~152/day · ~4.6K/mo

Releases R versions

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.13.0

Imports (2)

codaboot

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

4indirect

dclone AICcmodavg ISEtools R2MLwiN postpack

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Uwe Ligges

Maintainer, Author · added in 3.2-4

Authors (4)

Uwe Ligges

Maintainer, Author · added in 3.2-4

Andrew Gelman

Author · added in 3.2-4

Sibylle Sturtz

Author · added in 3.2-4

Neal Thomas

Author · added in 3.2-4

Contributors (2)

Gregor Gorjanc

Contributor · added in 3.2-4

Jouni Kerman

Contributor · added in 3.2-4

Listed in earlier versions (4)

Uwe Ligges. With considerable contributions by Gregor Gorjanc <gregor.gorjanc@bfro.uni-lj.si>

no longer listed · 3.2-1.3 to 3.2-3.2.1

packaged by Sibylle Sturtz

no longer listed · 3.2-1.3 to 3.2-3.2.1

Jouni Kerman. Adapted to R2OpenBUGS from R2WinBUGS by Neal Thomas.

no longer listed · 3.2-1.3 to 3.2-3.2.1

originally written as R2WinBUGS by Andrew Gelman; changes

no longer listed · 3.2-1.3 to 3.2-3.2.1

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Package metadata

First published: 2011-12-30
Total releases: 9 / 15 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.13.0
Bundled data: 0.1 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.3 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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