Hi, Michael. I remember that some people have had this sort of problem. There is a registry file in Bugs that is altered by R2WinBugs. The registry file is in the directory, c:\Program Files\WinBUGS14\System\Rsrc See you Andy P.S. I'm cc-ing the Bugs email list because others might be having these problems too. Michael C. Herron wrote: > Andy, > > As you may recall from an email exchange we had a month or so ago, I > am teaching a Bayesian class at University of Rochester this semester. > > The students in the class are using R and your R2WinBUGS code. > Software is installed on a network of XP boxes. > > We are having a variety of file permission problems. One problem was > that scripts.txt could not be written to by non-admin users, but I > fixed this by asking the network admin to make scripts.txt world > writeable and readable. Now, there are permission problem with some > sort of a registry file. > > Does this sort of a thing ring a bell to you? My system admin skills > are mainly in the unix world. Because of this I cannot tell if the > registry permission issue reflects network problems in the statistics > lab or the fact that WinBUGS is usually installed in a location that > can be written to by users. > > Thanks. If you have any insight on this I would appreciate it. And > thanks as well for the newsletter article with Park and Kaplan on > WinBUGS. > > Michael -- Andrew Gelman Professor, Department of Statistics Professor, Department of Political Science Columbia University, New York [log in to unmask] www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman Office hours fall 2006: Wed 10:30-12, 1016 Social Work Bldg Thurs 10:30-12, 731 International Affairs Bldg Statistics department office: Social Work Bldg (Amsterdam Ave at 122 St), Room 1016 212-851-2142 Political Science department office: International Affairs Bldg (Amsterdam Ave at 118 St), Room 731 212-854-7075 Mailing address: 1255 Amsterdam Ave, Room 1016 Columbia University New York, NY 10027-5904 212-851-2142 (fax) 212-851-2164 ------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is for discussion of modelling issues and the BUGS software. For help with crashes and error messages, first mail [log in to unmask] To mail the BUGS list, mail to [log in to unmask] Before mailing, please check the archive at www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bugs.html Please do not mail attachments to the list. To leave the BUGS list, send LEAVE BUGS to [log in to unmask] If this fails, mail [log in to unmask], NOT the whole list