Running rJAGS when the likelihood is a custom density - r

Question

I am trying to figure out how to sample from a custom density in rJAGS but am running into issues. having searched the site, I saw that there is a zeroes (or ones) trick that can be employed based on BUGS code but am having a hard time with its implementation in rJAGS. I think I am doing it correctly but keep getting the following error:
Error in jags.model(model1.spec, data = list(x = x, N = N), n.chains = 4, :
Error in node dpois(lambda)
Length mismatch in Node::setValue
Here is my rJAGS code for reproducibility:
library(rjags)
set.seed(4)
N = 100
x = rexp(N, 3)
L = quantile(x, prob = 1) # Censoring point
censor = ifelse(x <= L, 1, 0) # Censoring indicator
x[censor == 1] <- L
model1.string <-"
model {
for (i in 1:N){
x[i] ~ dpois(lambda)
lambda <- -N*log(1-exp(-(1/mu)))
}
mu ~ dlnorm(mup, taup)
mup <- log(.0001)
taup <- 1/49
R <- 1 - exp(-(1/mu) * .0001)
}
"
model1.spec<-textConnection(model1.string)
jags <- jags.model(model1.spec,
data = list('x' = x,
'N' = N),
n.chains=4,
n.adapt=100)
Here, my negative log likelihood of the density I am interested in is -N*log(1-exp(-(1/mu))). Is there an obvious mistake in the code?

Answer 1

Using the zeros trick, the variable on the left-hand side of the dpois() relationship has to be an N-length vector of zeros. The variable x should show up in the likelihood somewhere. Here is an example using the normal distribution.
set.seed(519)
N <- 100
x <- rnorm(100, mean=3)
z <- rep(0, N)
C <- 10
pi <- pi
model1.string <-"
model {
for (i in 1:N){
lambda[i] <- pow(2*pi*sig2, -0.5) * exp(-.5*pow(x[i]-mu, 2)/sig2)
loglam[i] <- log(lambda[i]) + C
z[i] ~ dpois(loglam[i])
}
mu ~ dnorm(0,.1)
tau ~ dgamma(1,.1)
sig2 <- pow(tau, -1)
sumLL <- sum(log(lambda[]))
}
"
model1.spec<-textConnection(model1.string)
set.seed(519)
jags <- jags.model(model1.spec,
data = list('x' = x,
'z' = z,
'N' = N,
'C' = C,
'pi' = pi),
inits = function()list(tau = 1, mu = 3),
n.chains=4,
n.adapt=100)
samps1 <- coda.samples(jags, c("mu", "sig2"), n.iter=1000)
summary(samps1)
Iterations = 101:1100
Thinning interval = 1
Number of chains = 4
Sample size per chain = 1000
1. Empirical mean and standard deviation for each variable,
plus standard error of the mean:
Mean SD Naive SE Time-series SE
mu 4.493 2.1566 0.034100 0.1821
sig2 1.490 0.5635 0.008909 0.1144
2. Quantiles for each variable:
2.5% 25% 50% 75% 97.5%
mu 0.6709 3.541 5.218 5.993 7.197
sig2 0.7909 0.999 1.357 1.850 2.779