On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, David Spiegelhalter wrote:
> Many of you have noticed that CODA Version 0.4 crashes in Splus Version
> 5.
>
> Brian Smith, from the Division of Biostatistics at The University of
> Iowa College of Medicine, has very kindly made substantial revisions to
> CODA Version 0.4 to get rid of the problems caused by the use of global
> variables. You can download a test version of his amended program: see
> the `latest' page on the bugs website (www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs) for
> instructions (if you wait till tomorrow there will also be ftp
> instructions, although you can guess them now).
>
>
Is this relevant to the R version or does CODA-R use the superior R
scoping rules?
> David Spiegelhalter
>
>
> PS WinBUGS 1.2 is almost ready. There are currently around 40 new
> registrations a week for WinBUGS, all by word of mouth or browsing.
>
Is classic BUGS now frozen? Since WinBUGS is sadly not being ported to an
oberon/Unix/Linux X environment are there any alternatives or will some of
the non-graphic WinBUGS enhancements creep into classic BUGS at some
stage? After all a lot of the graphic facilities can be accommodated by
CODA.
John
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