Generic example of using Classic BUGS and WinBUGS with Matlab

First create appropriate script file and model file.

Then create data file

 mat2bugs('stacks_dat.txt','Y',d(:,1),'x',d(:,2:end),'p',p,'N',n); 

init file

 mat2bugs('stacks_in.txt','beta0',10,'beta',[0 0 0],'tau',0.1); 

call OpenBUGS (in Linux)

 [s,w]=unix(['/proj/ave/OpenBUGS/LinBUGS < stacks_scro.txt']); 

or Classic BUGS (in Linux)

 unix(['/proj/ave/bugs/backbugs stacks.bmd']); 

or WinBUGS (in Linux)

 unix(['wine /proj/ave/c/WinBUGS/WinBUGS14.exe /PAR "Y:/cv_vs_dic/stacks/WinBUGS/stacks_scr.txt" 2> /dev/null' ]); 

Leming Qu reported that following works in Windows (replace <PATH> with real path)

 dos('<PATH>\WinBUGS14 /PAR <PATH>\script.txt') 

and read results to Matlab

 S=bugs2mat('bugsIndex.txt','bugs1.txt'); 

Note that all different versions of BUGS use slightly different script syntax, and the script files sent to different versions have to be modified accordingly.