BBEST

This is the R package 'BBEST' (Bayesian Background ESTimation) written and maintained by Anton Gagin (anton.gagin@nist.gov).

To cite the 'BBEST' package type

citation("BBEST")

Installation

Prior to using 'BBEST', R software environment should be installed. The R environment is available for Windows, MacOS and a variety of UNIX platforms, and can be downloaded at r-project.org. Manuals for R listed at cran.r-project.org/manuals provide a good introduction to this language.

You may also wish to install and IDE for R, for example, RStudio.

To install a stable version of 'BBEST' from CRAN type in the R command shell or in your IDE console

install.packages('BBEST', dependencies = TRUE)

Or download tar ball, decompress the file, and run R CMD INSTALL. You will have to install packages: 'DEoptim', 'aws', 'grid', 'ggplot2', 'reshape2', and 'shiny'.

Usage

To start working with 'BBEST', load it into memory by typing:

library("BBEST")

'BBEST' has a simple graphical user interface (GUI) that could be launched using the command

runUI()

This function starts the application in your default web browser. This GUI might not work on Internet Explorer 9 and below.

For a listing of all the routines in 'BBEST' type

library(help="BBEST")

To start a simple command-line guide, type

guide()