R2WinBUGS

2.1-24

Running 'WinBUGS' and 'OpenBUGS' from 'R' / 'S-PLUS'

10packages depend

133.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

9/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Uwe LiggesFirst published 2004-02-0237 releasesCRAN page ↗

Invoke a 'BUGS' model in 'OpenBUGS' or 'WinBUGS', a class "bugs" for 'BUGS' results and functions to work with that class. Function write.model() allows a 'BUGS' model file to be written. The class and auxiliary functions could be used with other MCMC programs, including 'JAGS'. The suggested package 'BRugs' (only needed for function openbugs()) is only available from the CRAN archives, see https://cran.r-project.org/package=BRugs.

Install

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

install.packages("R2WinBUGS", 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-r2winbugs

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

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-R2WinBUGS

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# 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-R2WinBUGS

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: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 89%
References docs: 5%

Downloads

133.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,291 · ~367/day · ~11.2K/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 2.13.0codaboot

Imports (3)

utilsstatsgraphics

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

BRugs

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

43indirect

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Uwe Ligges

Maintainer, Author

Authors (3)

Uwe Ligges

Maintainer, Author

Andrew Gelman

Author · added in 2.1-23

Sibylle Sturtz

Author · added in 2.1-23

Contributors (3)

Gregor Gorjanc

Contributor · added in 2.1-23

Insightful Corp.

Contributor · added in 2.1-23

Jouni Kerman

Contributor · added in 2.1-23

Listed in earlier versions (5)

packaged by Sibylle Sturtz

no longer listed · 0.2-1 to 2.1-22.1

originally written by Andrew Gelman; changes

no longer listed · 0.2-1 to 2.1-22.1

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

no longer listed · 2.0-1 to 2.1-22.1

Jouni Kerman.

no longer listed · 2.0-1 to 2.0-4

Jouni Kerman. Ported to S-PLUS by Insightful Corp.

no longer listed · 2.1-2 to 2.1-22.1

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Package metadata

First published: 2004-02-02
Total releases: 37 / 22 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.13.0
Bundled data: 0.1 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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