Common difficulties when running BUGS with R and their possible solutions

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Importing Data 

1. not meaningful for factors

This is old problem that not just happens when running BUGS. It sometimes happens because you copy your data from a large data set (in EXCEL) and paste it to a small one. Just change the format cell to "Number"and everything will be fine. 

Change the format cell in EXCEL

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