GRIMS - General R Interface for Markov Sampling

GRIMS is an R package for performing MCMC simulations, for distributions that are defined using R functions, using Markov sampling methods that are defined by R functions. In particular, it has implementations of some variations on Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC), as mentioned in my review paper on HMC.

This preliminary version, released 2012-06-07, is not yet structured as a proper R package, and has only a few example distributions and example sampling methods. It may also have lots of bugs. There is some discussion of GRIMS at my blog.

You can get the R functions and documentation files in this tar file or this zip file.

If you want to browse the documentation immedately, you can look at the documentation files below:

overview.txt
mcmc.txt
lpr_fun.txt
update_fun.txt
singlevar.txt
and here is the README file.

Previous releases (tar files):

2011-08-26
2011-08-10
2011-06-28
2011-06-25

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