I had to use the good old `OpenBUGS` for some analyses that cannot be done in `JAGS`. Below are the steps to install `OpenBUGS` then to run it from your Mac either natively or from `R`. This tutorial is an adaptation of [this post](https://sites.google.com/site/mmeclimate/-bayesmet/openbugs-on-mac-os-x) and [that one](http://www.davideagle.org/r-2/bayesian-modeling-using-winbugs-and-openbugs/running-openbugs-on-mac-using-wine).
Here, I illustrate the possibility to use `JAGS` to simulate data with two examples that might be of interest to population ecologists: first a linear regression, second a Cormack-Jolly-Seber capture-recapture model to estimate animal survival (formulated as a state-space model). The code is available from [GitHub](https://github.com/oliviergimenez/simul_with_jags).
This is a free adaptation of two (very) clever analyses made by others:
The Star Wars Social Network by Evelina Gabasov in which program F# was mostly used to analyse the Star wars social networks