Materials for NIMBLE short course at the 2020 BayesComp meeting.
All materials for the workshop are here. If you're familiar with Git/Github, you already know how to get all the materials on your computer. If you're not, simply click here.
You can see logistical information and an outline of the workshop content here.
NIMBLE is an R package on CRAN, so in general it will be straightforward to install as with any R package, but you do need a compiler and related tools on your system.
In summary, here are the steps.
- Install compiler tools on your system. https://r-nimble.org/download has more details on how to install Rtools on Windows and how to install the command line tools of Xcode on a Mac. Note that if you have packages requiring a compiler (e.g., Rcpp) on your computer, you should already have the compiler tools installed.
- Install the nimble package from CRAN.
More details (including troubleshooting tips) can also be found in Section 4 of the NIMBLE manual.