CmdStanR

CmdStanR is a lightweight interface to Stan for R users (see CmdStanPy for Python).

To get started see the vignette Getting started with CmdStanR.

Goals

• A clean interface to Stan services so that CmdStanR can keep up with Stan releases.

• Minimal dependencies:
  • depend on few other R packages
  • R code doesn’t interface directly with c++, only calls compiled executables

• Modularity: CmdStanR runs Stan’s algorithms and lets downstream modules do the analysis.

• More flexible license: CmdStanR uses the BSD-3 license rather than the GPL-3 license required for RStan.

Installation

CmdStanR is not released yet, but will eventually be released as the cmdstanr R package. Currently you can install the development version from GitHub, but expect frequent changes until an official release.

# install.packages("devtools")
# devtools::install_github("jgabry/posterior")
devtools::install_github("stan-dev/cmdstanr")

Contributing

There is a lot of work still to be done and contributions are very welcome! If you are interested in contributing please comment on an open issue or open a new one if none are applicable.

License

CmdStanR, like CmdStan and the core Stan C++ code, is licensed under new BSD. See the LICENSE.md file.