> > Yes, sure, and indeed, it is a shame that nobody of those people who > want it to work under Linux is trying to submit patches to make it work. > > > I agree, but I *think* the primary reason for this is that it requires installing Blackbox as a PASCAL compiler. For much of the Linux community, if it doesn't make use of a standard GNU compiler (there *is* a GNU Pascal compiler, but since I (and most others) don't know PASCAL, I've never installed it), there will be little interest. Of course, what seems attractive about JAGS is that it is less dependent on a non-GNU compiler (although the dependencies to Blackbox may not be large - relative to GNU Pascal - don't know), and is written in a more familiar language.
What everyone wants is a tarball with a simple configure, make, make install sequence, that plays nice with R, under linux, which is the OS of choice (based on the statistics I have) for folks with high-end hardware (read - multi-processor 64-bit chips with a 64-bit OS). Of course, this doesn't happen by itself (your point is well-taken). ______________________________________________ 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.
