Hi all,
After having met, Daniel, Eric and Michael in Paris at a Meetup (I hope everybody is going well :) ), here is some words concerning MathematicaStan, a Mathematica CmdStan wrapper.
The GitHub repo is still there: https://github.com/vincent-picaud/MathematicaStan
Even if some features like multiple instances of CmdStan for parallel sampling are missing, the interface is stable.
The only feedbacks I had are related to my post there stackoverflow post
Regards,
Vincent
Hi Vincent,
I’m really sorry: I meant to email you last week.
If you’re still willing, we can have MathematicaStan listed on the website, you added to the developers, and have the repo hosted at GitHub.com/stan-dev
If you want to shift the repo, please add me as an admin on your repo. I can then transfer the repo to stan-dev.
Daniel
Hi Daniel,
Please, do not worry about it, really… Time is running so fast for all of us.
I added you as collaborator to the MathematicaStan repo, I hope I understood you well and it is what you need.
Vincent
Thanks!
I wasn’t right about giving me access – that used to work, but now it doesn’t. Can you try transferring to me? (syclik)
Once I have ownership, I can move it to stan-dev.
GitHub’s permissions have changed so much since we started with them.
Re Daniel,
I have done a mirror copy of the MathematicaStan repo (for my usage) and given you the ownership of the GitHub repo.
I hope that you can move it now.
Thanks,
Vincent
Hi Vincent,
It’s moved! https://github.com/stan-dev/MathematicaStan
And you have admin access on that repo.
Daniel
Hi Daniel,
Thank you. I will test it as soon as I have new commits.
Vincent
Some good news from MathematicaStan.
Thanks to Jeff Patterson contribution, we have fixed some minor path problems and have confirmation that it works under Windows:
https://github.com/stan-dev/MathematicaStan/issues/1
I am happy with that as all the developments have been done under Linux and I have no access to Windows.
Using the MathematicaStan package, Jeff also sent me very interesting notebooks that reproduce results from:
http://www.sanjogmisra.com/blog/stan/
http://mc-stan.org/documentation/case-studies/hierarchical_2pl.html
I will ask him permission to upload them and invite him to continue our discussion here, so that we can befenit from your expertise.
@Daniel, now that we have confirmation that the package works under Windows, do you agree to add a link in the mc-stan site? I mean, I think it is a good way to inform others that this Mathematica wrapper exists.
Vincent
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Great to hear this is almost ready to go.
@Daniel, now that we have confirmation that the package works under Windows, do you agree to add a link in the mc-stan site? I mean, I think it is a good way to inform others that this Mathematica wrapper exists.
Yes, absolutely. And we’ll email the users list and
put up a post on Andrew’s blog when the web site’s updated
and ready to go.
For web site, we’ll put a link here:
and then need a page similar to the one for MATLAB:
If you give me the information, I can write it, or you can
just make a pull request on our web site repo. Its wiki has
instructions on how to run all the Jekyll locally.
We’d then also like to add you to our team page if
that’s OK with you:
For that, we need a name and GitHub handle, and optionally:
And if you have some case study replications, we can also list them
here as we did with the RStanArm translation of my hierarchical modeling
case study:
http://mc-stan.org/documentation/case-studies.html
Hi Bob,
Thank you for your answer,
If you do not mind, it would be nice to proceed as you suggest because I have never used Jekyll.
For the moment MathematicaStan does not have wiki pages, hence the only fields are:
1/ Download and Get Started: GitHub - stan-dev/MathematicaStan: A Mathematica package to interact with CmdStan
2/ Documentation: the README.org file of the repo
3/ Licence: GPL-3.0
It is ok and a pleasure to be added to the team:
photo: you can use the one I have here.
affiliation: CEA, France
home page: none
email: picaud.vincent@gmail.com
twitter handle: https://twitter.com/PicaudV
linked in profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-picaud-a5087275
For the moment these Mathematica notebooks, from Jeff Patterson, demonstrate how to:
1/ how to call R code from Mathematica (using Mathematica official RLink tool Introduction to RLink—Wolfram Language Documentation).
2/ extends the MathematicaStan RDumpExport[] function to support the RObject structure returned by the Mathematica official function REvaluate[]
There is still some work to get a smooth and portable (Linux&Window) integration of this, but having access in a coherent way to R & Stan from Mathematica is motivating.
Vincent
OK, added MathematicaStan to our interfaces and
you to our dev list on the web site. The web pages are
just another GitHub repo. It’s a very convenient way to
set up a server—GitHub does the serving and merges to
master update the generated site.
I scheduled a blog post announcing MathematicaStan on Andrew’s
blog for 3 PM New York time tomorrow (Wednesday 19 November).
Thanks again!
Great!
I am happy to contribute to Stan, I really like this software.
Many thanks too.
Vincent
Sounds like we could use your help down at the Math library
C++ level. We’ve pulled it all out into its own repo in
GitHub.
I hope I will be able to. I still have a lot to learn about Stan code design and organization in order to do right contributions.
Vincent
Thanks for getting it up on the website, @Bob_Carpenter.
@vincent-picaud, we would love the help! If anything is confusing, please let us know and we’ll try to explain.
Some MathematicaStan news
I just have done a merge in the master branch
Complete refactoring of option management
The previous one was bugged and did not respect the option hierarchy
Parallel sampling is now possible (under Linux)
TODO: the windows version
Doc improvement + notebook examples update
Vincent
Some news from MathematicaStan.
I should have more free time in April, I have planned to write MathematicaStan V2.
The current implementation is compatible with Mathematica V8.0 (a quite old version).
MathematicaStan V2 will benefit from functionalities of more recent Mathematica versions (V10 or the latest V11).
Vincent