Are there any users of our R packages interested in working on cheatsheets like the ones RStudio has popularized? We would love to have these available for download on the websites for our R packages and this seems like a nice way for one or many users to contribute to the Stan project without needing to have a deep knowledge of the codebase (at least not the internals).
For my students, I tried my hand at cheat sheets like RStudio’s, but instead used \LaTeX's beamer package alongside knitr, since I don’t have any artistic talent. My effort landed at something closer to a guide or a simple example, rather than a cheat sheet, but it’s not bad. Attached is a quick effort towards bayesplot.
@jonah : Is the plan to redistribute these somehow on our web site? If so, we’ll need a license that allows redistribution or we’ll have to maintain links.
@roualdes Nice, looks great! Thanks for getting the ball rolling on this.
@Bob_Carpenter Yeah I think we should host them if possible. Should we ask for CC BY from anyone interested in contributing one? That would be sufficient, right?
Ok thanks. Is the Rnw file the place to make the edits? The only thing I wanted to change (although I think it affects most of the document) is that you can use as.array with stanreg objects instead of as.matrix in order to keep the chains separate. None of the plots in the cheatsheet actually require directly using the stanfit object inside the stanreg object.
Correct, the Rnw file is the place to make edits. If you don’t get to it in the next few days, I’ll heed your good advice. Using as.array makes sense, I should have thought to try that.