I’m using cmdstanr on a computing cluster, using slurm runs. It seems that all my runs can finish, with output results. But when I look at the log file I saw lots of error messages from cmdstanr: Error: No CmdStan config files found. Set ‘save_cmdstan_config=TRUE’ when fitting the model. I goog…

This error is safe to ignore, I’m currently preparing a bugfix release of cmdstanr which resolves this

Hi! I noticed another error message from my run log: Error while shutting down parallel: unable to terminate some child processes Similar to the last one I noted, this doesn’t seem to prevent my runs from finishing and outputting results. It’s just that when I open up the run log, I’d see it the…

cmdstanr doesn’t use parallel, so I think those are likely caused by a different package

Yeah I’m indeed using foreach and dopar in my other part of the codes, so it’s possible that this error message comes from there. But I noticed someone quoting this exact error message here: Chains finish unexpectedly in new install of CmdStanR - #6 by Fabian_Crespo That’s why I thought this might …

But do you get the error messages when you’re just using cmdstanr, without foreach or dopar? If you’ve got a reproducible example, that would be a great help for debugging

You were right! I just tested that if I don’t use dopar in the other part of the codes, this error won’t show up. So it’s not related to cmdstanr after all!

Cmdstanr error message

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andrjohns June 7, 2024, 7:50am 3

This has now been fixed in cmdstanr 0.8.1.

Release announcement here

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Cmdstanr error message

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