Poor error message when MultiBUGS.pgm is not set correctly

[gxjyj]

Dr:
when I run my code by R2MultiBUGS, it shows error that"MultiBUGS did not run correctly. No log file was produced.". How can I do for the error? thank you!

[rjbgoudie]

Hi, sorry for the very long delay in replying. If you are still looking to resolve this, can you try running with debug=TRUE in your bugs() call?

[rjbgoudie]

Via an email conversation with a colleague of yours, I think we established the problem was fixed by using the full path to MultiBUGS.exe in the MultiBUGS.pgm argument of bugs(). e.g.

schools.sim <- bugs(data, inits, parameters, model.file,
                  n.chains=3, n.workers = 2, n.iter=5000,
                  debug = TRUE,
                  MultiBUGS.pgm= "C:\\MultiBUGS-1.0\\MultiBUGS\\MultiBUGS.exe”)

whereas the following doesn’t work:

schools.sim <- bugs(data, inits, parameters, model.file,
                  n.chains=3, n.workers = 2, n.iter=5000,
                  debug = TRUE,
                  MultiBUGS.pgm= "C:\\MultiBUGS-1.0\\MultiBUGS\\”)

Clearly the current error message is very unclear, and will need to be improved.