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Mother Nature at 08:42, 10 February 2014

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2011-10-24T17:40:22Z

‎Instructions for using BRugs on a Mac

2011-10-24T17:39:19Z

‎specifically: Bayesian Data Analysis on a Mac with R and OpenBUGS via BRugs

2011-07-22T20:01:01Z

2011-07-22T19:33:19Z

‎how can I uninstall Windows R?: new section

2011-03-24T11:46:17Z

2011-03-10T02:05:50Z

‎Instructions for using BRugs on a Mac

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 ====Instructions for using BRugs on a Mac====
 * Be a Mac user of R (if you are on Windows then you don't have a problem).
-* Download [http://hri.cogs.indiana.edu/~jackh/WindowsR.app.tar.bz2 this].
+* Download [http://hrilab.cs.tufts.edu/~jackh/WindowsR.app.tar.bz2 this].
 * Extract the tarball or (if you don't know what that means) hope that your computer magically turns the file into one that ends with ''.app'' .
 * Open the app, wait a bit.  There will be a benign error, just hit OK.

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 This post is solving a very narrow problem. R is cross-platform, but OpenBUGS only works on Windows.  The same holds either for the cousins of OpenBUGS or for their bridges with R.  So it is hard for Mac users to do Bayesian data analysis in R with the flexibility offered by BUGS.
-My colleague [http://hri.cogs.indiana.edu/people/jack.php  Jack Harris] has a fix that doesn't take any fiddling.  Its great.  If you know what you are doing, instructions are below.  If you wish you knew what you were doing, [http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/DoingBayesianDataAnalysis/ read a book].
+My colleague [http://hrilab.cs.tufts.edu/people/jack.php  Jack Harris] has a fix that doesn't take any fiddling.  Its great.  If you know what you are doing, instructions are below.  If you wish you knew what you were doing, [http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/DoingBayesianDataAnalysis/ read a book].
 ====Instructions for using BRugs on a Mac====

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−	~~== how can I uninstall Windows R? ==~~
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−	~~Hi,~~
−	I have a corrupted installation of Windows R. How can I uninstall? I tried to uninstall by moving Windows R to Thresh and emptying thrash, but then when I reinstalled Windows R and tried to install the BRugs package, it complained that it "cannot remove prior installation of BRugs". So are there pieces of BRugs in other places?
−	~~Thanks!~~
−	~~Marieke~~

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		+	== how can I uninstall Windows R? ==
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		+	Hi,
		+	I have a corrupted installation of Windows R. How can I uninstall? I tried to uninstall by moving Windows R to Thresh and emptying thrash, but then when I reinstalled Windows R and tried to install the BRugs package, it complained that it "cannot remove prior installation of BRugs". So are there pieces of BRugs in other places?
		+	Thanks!
		+	Marieke

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 You should get pretty graphs.  That means it worked.  If you want more,  the samples from [http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/DoingBayesianDataAnalysis Kruschke's book] are [http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/DoingBayesianDataAnalysis/Programs/ here].   The samples should all run fine if you download everything to one spot.  The book has puppies on the cover to signal its friendliness to the 'fraid-of-math.
 There are other workarounds to get BUGS in R on a Mac.  This one is the easiest to get going and I've been told that it has some other advantages (thanks Drew):
 *In this wine environment copy/paste/save work (but with the control key instead of the command key on my Mac keyboard).
 *Control-R actually runs highlighted text.
 *Downside: shift-arrows does not highlight, instead it overwrites text in this version.

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 ====Instructions for using BRugs on a Mac====
-* Be a Mac user of R (if you aren't then you don't have a problem)
+* Be a Mac user of R (if you are on Windows then you don't have a problem).
 * Download [http://hri.cogs.indiana.edu/~jackh/WindowsR.app.tar.bz2 this].
 * Extract the tarball or (if you don't know what that means) hope that your computer magically turns the file into one that ends with ''.app'' .
 * Open the app, wait a bit.  There will be a benign error, just hit OK.
 * After R loads, type
-  install.packages("Brugs")
+  install.packages("BRugs")
 * Download [http://www.indiana.edu/~jkkteach/BayesTutorial/TutorialBRugsTest.R this test file] and type
   setwd("~/whereeverthefilewent")
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 You should get pretty graphs.  That means it worked.  If you want more,  the samples from [http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/DoingBayesianDataAnalysis Kruschke's book] are [http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/DoingBayesianDataAnalysis/Programs/ here].   The samples should all run fine if you download everything to one spot.  The book has puppies on the cover to signal its friendliness to the 'fraid-of-math.

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−	You should get pretty graphs. That means it worked. If you want more ~~sample code~~, ~~there is lots~~ [http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/DoingBayesianDataAnalysis~~/Programs/ here~~]~~. The folder lists the samples from~~ [http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/DoingBayesianDataAnalysis ~~Kruschke's book~~]. The samples should all run fine if you download everything to one spot. The book has puppies on the cover to signal its friendliness to the 'fraid-of-math.	+	You should get pretty graphs. That means it worked. If you want more, the samples from [http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/DoingBayesianDataAnalysis Kruschke's book] are [http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/DoingBayesianDataAnalysis/Programs/ here]. The samples should all run fine if you download everything to one spot. The book has puppies on the cover to signal its friendliness to the 'fraid-of-math.