From plummer at iarc.fr  Thu Oct  6 11:59:14 2005
From: plummer at iarc.fr (Martyn Plummer)
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:59:14 +0200
Subject: [Rd] How do I install rbugs ? (PR#8183)
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On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 11:33 +0200, Roger Bivand wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 ulf.lindstroem at imr.no wrote:
> 
> > Dear rbugs,
> > 
> > 6 month a ago the homepage of R showed how I could install and do a =
> > test-Run of rbugs. This information is not available anymore. I would =
> > appreciate if you could help me installing rbugs and making wun =
> > properly.
> 
> Please NEVER use the R-bugs reporting system unless you are absolutely 
> sure that you are reporting a major failure in the software - do read the 
> guidance notes! Especially on release day, reporting non-bugs does raise 
> pressure unnecessarily.
> 
> Google on "rbugs" gives:
> 
> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/rbugs.html
> 
> Please also read http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html carefully.

This looks like a semantic error. The address R-bugs is not a mailing
list for the discussion of R and BUGS (Bayesian Inference using Gibbs
Sampling), but for reporting "bugs" (i.e. programming errors) in R. A
moment of research would have revealed this. 

Ulf is probably thinking of the article published in R news by Sun Yan,
co-author of the rbugs package. It is still available:

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/

Martyn

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[Rd] How do I install rbugs ? (PR#8183)
Martyn Plummer