Hi Frank, Thanks for the suggestion. It looks like that is an excellent way to install JAGS. I've also been successful with installing JAGS, but cannot get the rjags package to install, so I can call JAGS from R. Any suggestions there? Thanks.
Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: > > See if this helps:http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/JAGSInstallExample > > Improvements to this approach are welcomed. > Frank > > > Paul Heinrich Dietrich wrote: >> Hi, >> Here is a step-by-step guide to exactly how I've installed R in Ubuntu: >> http://www.nabble.com/installing-R-on-Ubuntu-td10025949.html#a21894865 >> >> Regarding rjags, here is what happened: >> >> This webpage >> (http://yusung.blogspot.com/2009/01/install-jags-and-rjags-in-fedora.html) >> recommends logging into R as sudo R, and then typing: >> >> install.packages("rjags", >> configure.args="--with-jags-include=/usr/local/include/JAGS >> --with-jags-lib=/usr/local/lib/JAGS >> --with-jags-modules=/usr/local/lib/JAGS/modules") >> >> ...but I get... >> >> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : >> unable to load shared library >> '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rjags/libs/rjags.so': >> >> ...which is virtually identical to this thread >> (http://www.nabble.com/unable-to-install-rjags-on-64-bit-Debian-Linux-(etch)-td20404210.html#a20404210) >> about a 64-bit install. Although my computer has dual AMD64's, I'm sure >> it's a 32-bit system. I have removed rjags with >> remove.packages("rjags"). >> Does anybody know how to install rjags in Ubuntu Linux (I'm specifying >> it, >> because I am very new and don't know what I'm doing yet)? Thanks. > > > -- > Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine > Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Error-installing-rjags-in-Ubuntu-Linux-tp21900345p21903233.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.