How to open WinBUGS .odc file in OpenBUGS and import to R

Question

I'm trying to open and test the examples from Lee's (2007) Structural Equation Modeling: a Bayesian Approach. The zip file contains a PDF, a DAT file and a file in with .odc suffix for each chapter. I'm interested in accessing the content of the .odc file, but I am not sure how to do so. I presume this is a so-called Oberon compound document file, and should be possible to open in WinBUGS. I am using Linux, however, so my alternative is OpenBUGS.

I am currently wondering if I can access and import its content to R using OpenBUGS and the R2OpenBUGS package or similar?

Answer 1

While OpenBUGS seemingly will allow .odc file to run, I have yet to find a way to access their content this way.

However, a workaround is to compile odcread (in AUR) and use this to extract the contents of the .odc:

% odcread file.odc > file.txt