Compilation ERROR - brms and stan model

[bgoodri]

You seem to have the same problem as

Error in if()

Hi I am new to Rstan. I am trying to run the eight school example on https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan/wiki/RStan-Getting-Started#how-to-use-rstan. But getting the error Error in if (grepl(pattern, makefile_txt[i])) { : argument is of length zero Could anyone please help me to overcome the error please. Any help is appreciated. Thanks

which I currently do not understand fully. Can you go through the posts on that thread and how much of it applies to your situation?