Error in compileCode while installing (Mac)

[roualdes]

I googled parts of your error message

@speoples

xcrun: error: invalid active developer path

and found the suggestion to try running the following code in a terminal window (found /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app):

xcode-select --install

Also, the following thread might have some more options for you if the above still doesn’t cut it:

Suggestions for OS X install wiki

The wiki currently suggests installing the command line tools by installing Xcode, a 5GB download & 9GB install size. I suggest it instead suggest simply running xcode-select --install in a terminal, which installs simply the command line tools alone. Further, I think some of the packages on which RStan depends require things like openssl, curl, etc, in which case I think we should be recommending folks use the mature/popular homebrew package management system. Indeed, a simple shell script to…