Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

rstantools (development version)

rstantools 2.5.0

CRAN release: 2025-09-01

• Extended loo_pit() for discrete data by @TeemuSailynoja in #121
• Add loo_epred() by @avehtari in #122
• Fix stanfunctions failures with new Stan RNG by @andrjohns in #125
• Add handling for new RNG type in Stan by @andrjohns in #126
• Fix regression (introduced in 2.4.0) in the compilation of packages with custom Stan functions by @mcol in #137
• Fix roxygen2 warning by @mcol in #136

rstantools 2.4.0

CRAN release: 2024-01-31

• Update to match CRAN’s patched version by @jgabry in #114
• Include additional template imports to suppress NOTEs by @andrjohns in #115
• Fix packages with stanfunctions under rstan 2.33+ by @andrjohns in #117

rstantools 2.3.1

CRAN release: 2023-03-30

• Deprecated init_cpp. (#105)
• Bugfix for standalone functions under 2.31 (#110)
• Only add Makevars for current platform. (#109)
• Suppress false-positive warning for standalone functions. (#111)

rstantools 2.3.0

CRAN release: 2023-03-09

• Updated C++ standard to C++17 (#100)
• Updated the handling of exporting standalone stan functions in packages for compatibility with the 2.26 (and beyond) versions of StanHeaders and rstan (#101)
• Added Andrew Johnson (@andrjohns) as an author

rstantools 2.2.0

CRAN release: 2022-04-08

(Github issue/PR numbers in parentheses)

• Updated “Step by step guide” vignette with instructions for adding new Stan models to an existing R package that already has Stan models. (#79, @rerickson-usgs)

• Fixed R CMD check NOTE “configure does not appear to have a #! interpreter line”. (#83)

• Use writeLines instead of cat to fix line endings issue reported by CRAN. (#87)

• Switch to GitHub Actions for CI. (#90, @andrjohns)

• Deprecate automatic creation of .travis.yml file. We now recommend the use of GitHub Actions. (#89)

• Ensure compatibility with future versions of RStan. (#85, #94, @andrjohns, @hsbadr)

rstantools 2.1.1

CRAN release: 2020-07-06

(Github issue/PR numbers in parentheses)

• Compatibility with StanHeaders 2.21.0-5

rstantools 2.1.0

CRAN release: 2020-06-01

• Compatibility with StanHeaders 2.21.0-3
• Improve messaging around updating NAMESPACE file (#75, @mikekaminsky)
• More informative error message for rstan_create_package() when directory already exists. (#68, @mcol)
• Add generated C++ files to .gitignore and .Rbuildignore (#66, @mcol)
• New generic posterior_epred() (#74)

rstantools 2.0.0

CRAN release: 2019-09-14

• Added Martin Lysy as a coauthor.

• New function rstan_create_package() (based on usethis::create_package()) replaces rstan_package_skeleton() for the purpose of starting a new package with Stan functionality.

• Stan functionality can be added to an existing package by calling use_rstan() instead of starting a new package from scratch.

• Stan folder infrastructure now puts all .stan files in inst/stan and all auto-generated C++ files directly in src. This last step ensures that custom Rcpp source code can coexist with the Stan C++ code.

• Each time a .stan file gets added/removed/modified requires a call to rstan_config() in order to generate the Stan C++ code and Rcpp::loadModule() calls. However, setting auto_config = TRUE (the default) in rstan_create_package() ensures rstan_config() is called whenever the package is installed (including via devtools::load_all()), so no need to call it manually unless the user wishes to inspect the Stan C++ code for issues.

• roxygen2 documentation is now optional, but remains the default.

• Rather than generating Stan “system files” via cat commands, rstantools now stores these as template files in inst/include/sys, so the build process can be easily modified as improvements become apparent.

rstantools 1.5.1

CRAN release: 2018-08-22

(Github issue/PR numbers in parentheses)

• Fix issue related to changes in the usethis package by removing the fields argument to rstan_package_skeleton() and setting it internally instead.
• New generic nsamples() (#35)

rstantools 1.5.0

CRAN release: 2018-04-17

(Github issue/PR numbers in parentheses)

• New vignette walking through the package creation process. (#9) (thanks to Stefan Siegert)

• rstan_package_skeleton() now calls usethis::create_package() instead of utils::package.skeleton(). (#28)

• Update rstan_package_skeleton() for latest build process (#19)

• rstan_package_skeleton() now does a bit more work for the user to make sure the the NAMESPACE file is correct.

• Simplify instructions in Read-and-delete-me (related to #19).

rstantools 1.4.0

CRAN release: 2017-12-21

(Github issue/PR numbers in parentheses)

• Update rstan_package_skeleton() to correspond to rstanarm 2.17.2.

rstantools 1.3.0

CRAN release: 2017-08-02

(Github issue/PR numbers in parentheses)

• Add bayes_R2() generic and default method. (#8)

rstantools 1.2.1

(Github issue/PR numbers in parentheses)

• Add init_cpp() function for generating src/init.cpp in order to pass R CMD check in R 3.4.x. rstan_package_skeleton() calls init_cpp() internally. (#6)

rstantools 1.2.0

CRAN release: 2017-03-17

(Github issue/PR numbers in parentheses)

• Minor fixes to rstan_package_skeleton() for better Windows compatibility. (#1, #2)

• Fix some typos in the developer guidelines vignette. (#3, #4)

• Add loo_predict(), loo_linpred(), and loo_predictive_interval() generics in preparation for adding methods to the rstanarm package. (#5)

rstantools 1.1.0

CRAN release: 2016-12-20

Changes to rstan_package_skeleton:

• Add comment in Read-and-delete-me about importing all of Rcpp and methods packages.

• Include methods in Depends field of DESCRIPTION file.

• Also download rstanarm’s Makevars.win file.

rstantools 1.0.0

CRAN release: 2016-11-20

• Initial CRAN release