Materials for NIMBLE (virtual) short course at the March 2020 ENAR meeting.
All materials for the workshop will be 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.
Get started here with logistical information and an outline of the workshop content.
Time: 8 am - 12 noon, Central time, Sunday March 22.
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.
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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.
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Install the nimble package from CRAN in the usual fashion for an R package. More details (including troubleshooting tips) can also be found in Section 4 of the NIMBLE manual.
- To test that things are working please run the following code in R:
library(nimble)
code <- nimbleCode({
y ~ dnorm(0,1)
})
model <- nimbleModel(code)
cModel <- compileNimble(model)
If that runs without error, you're all set. If not, please see the troubleshooting tips and email me directly if you can't get things going.