CmdStanR 0.6.0 released

Announcements
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We just released CmdStanR v0.6.0. The two biggest new features (thanks to @andrjohns) are:

  • Exposing Stan functions to R
  • Exposing other functionality to R including the model’s log-prob function, gradients, and parameter constraining / unconstraining

For a full list of changes see Changelog • cmdstanr.

Thank you to everyone who contributed!

Installation

To install the new version use the following (and double check that it installs version 0.6.0):

# we recommend running this is a fresh R session or restarting your current session
install.packages("cmdstanr", repos = c("https://mc-stan.org/r-packages/", getOption("repos")))

Contributing

We’re always looking for new contributors! If you’re interested in contributing to CmdStanR or any of our packages let us know.

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Thanks to everyone who pointed out some bugs in 0.6.0. We’ve just released a minor update 0.6.1 to address those bugs plus a few other things:

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