Did you ever want the full list of functions and distributions in Stan? Well here is how to get it

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You can get all the functions this way:

clone the stan-docs repo then cd into it run the python script with the major and minor version numbers:

python3 extract_function_sigs.py 2 28

then run a bash command to extract only the unique names

cut -d ';' -f1 stan-functions-2_28.txt | uniq -u > stan_functions_list-2_28.txt

stan_functions_list-2_28.txt (6.4 KB)

The output of the python script has all the valid signatures as well. I just needed the names.

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There is also a list of available signatures for all functions here: Stan supported functions and signatures

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According to Rok it just doesn’t have the variadic functions. You can also get this list with stanc3.

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No no, the approach you outlined has variadic functions as well, as it parses the docs not stanc3.

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Yes, I meant the approach you outlined :)