rstan

Overview

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Maintained by Ben GoodrichFirst published 2015-07-1832 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

User-facing R functions are provided to parse, compile, test, estimate, and analyze Stan models by accessing the header-only Stan library provided by the 'StanHeaders' package. The Stan project develops a probabilistic programming language that implements full Bayesian statistical inference via Markov Chain Monte Carlo, rough Bayesian inference via 'variational' approximation, and (optionally penalized) maximum likelihood estimation via optimization. In all three cases, automatic differentiation is used to quickly and accurately evaluate gradients without burdening the user with the need to derive the partial derivatives.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("rstan")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

pak::pak("stan-dev/rstan")

Development version from stan-dev/rstan. Requires the pak package.

Release

# one-time r2u setup for Ubuntu (noble)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash

# then install

sudo apt install r-cran-rstan

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). Run the setup once per machine.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

sudo dnf copr enable iucar/cran

sudo dnf install R-CRAN-rstan

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

sudo zypper install R-rstan

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS.

Health

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.4.0StanHeaders

Imports (10)

methods basestats4 baseinline gridExtra Rcpp RcppParallel loo pkgbuild QuickJSR ggplot2

LinkingTo (5)

Rcpp RcppEigen BH StanHeaders RcppParallel

Suggests (12)

testthat parallel baseKernSmooth baseshinystan bayesplot rmarkdown rstantools rstudioapi Matrix baseknitr coda V8

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none

Reverse dependencies

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and 336 more packages.

Code

21,564Lines of code

56Exported functions

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People & History

People (18)

Maintainer (1)

Ben Goodrich

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Copyright holders (8)

Nikhar Agrawal

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Paul Bristow

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Trustees of Columbia University

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The R Core Team

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Christopher Kormanyos

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John Maddock

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Jens Oehlschlaegel-Akiyoshi

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Oleg Sklyar

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2015-07-18

Package metadata

First published: 2015-07-18
Total releases: 32 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
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