Sorry guys it seems you will have to recompile yourself the SpikeOMaticLibrary in order to have the MCMC routines running. Don't panick it's not that hard.

You first have to download and install cygwin.
When you download it be careful to select:
Fine. Then the installation procedure takes some time (10 to 30 minutes). Go and drink a coffee.
I will assume in the sequel that you have chosen to install cygwin in: c:\cygwin and that you were logged on as administrator which means you should now find the following folder: c:\cygwin\home\administrator.

Your next task is to download and install gengetopt. Download it to your brand new folder: c:\cygwin\home\administrator

Now start cygwin by double clicking on its icon on your desktop. You should be in your folder (c:\cygwin\home\administrator) typing: should show you, among other things: That is, the package you have just downloaded. You now just have to type in the following commands: Congratulations, you have just compiled your first package! Let's keep going with the SpikeOMaticLibrary.

Download the source file of the library to c:\cygwin\home\administrator
Then type: The check command (make check_noX) will take one or two minutes to run.
You are almost there!

To finish the work, copy and paste file som_mcmc.exe from c:\cygwin\home\administrator\SpikeOMaticLibrary to: c:\cygwin\bin
You just need to add this last directory to your PATH variable (see below) and that's it...
You can now start R and re-generate the second tutorial of SpikeOMatic... But be patient it takes much more time on Windows than on Linux.

To add a directory to the PATH variable, go to Start - Control Panel - System - Advanced - Environment Variable and edit the variable "Path". You can add the directory c:\cygwin\bin
in which you put your file som_mcmc.exe.