I would really prefer to have lightweight docker images for fast download times… and no user on earth will switch the stan interface.
But, lightweight is important.
@ahartikainen & @wds15, I will be putting this on the Thursday general Stan meeting agenda with the intent of getting a wider circle of feedback. Hopefully you and anyone else can attend.
Regarding IDE’s
- I will reach out to the guys at the rocker-project to get their perspective on RStudio
- VScode and PyCharm are able to use docker containers
I am not sure where if much has happened with this over the last few weeks, but I use Stan and RStudio with mapped volumes etc as part of my standard workflow these days and it works very well. I have a few repos online where I have both the Dockerfile and Makefile to help use the container for the code - see for example my current project at
and I am happy to help out with this as much you might need.
I mainly use R though (with images based on rocker/verse)
2 Likes
I completely missed this thread! @stevebronder, thanks for tagging me. I’ll have to tag @jackinovik about docker.
@mtwest, did anything come of this meeting or from communications with the Rocker project?
I’m looking for a containerized version of stan/pystan. Is there any update on this discussion? If not, why did you choose to not go forward with this :)?
Is this what you’re looking for?
Adding a few more:
I haven’t used any myself, so please leave feedback if you find some are better than others.
1 Like