Error in dim(sssf)

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Hi,

I am dealing with an error message that I do not fully understand and I am also unable to get my model to work.

Whenever I run a Stan model in R with thin=5 I get this error message:
Error in dim(sssf) <- c(n2, object@sim$chains, length(tidx)) :
dims [product 0] do not match the length of object [2584]

I assume the error comes from code line 481 here: https://github.com/cran/rstan/blob/master/R/stanfit-class.R

When I set thin=1 I end up with this error:
Error in FUN(newX[, i], …) : is.atomic(x) is not TRUE

Both error appear after the all chains have ran.

But I do not understand how I caused this error and also not how to fix it.

I updated all packages and the error persists.

Best,
Lucas

  • Operating System: Mac OSX Catalina
  • RStan Version: 2.19.2
  • Output of writeLines(readLines(file.path(Sys.getenv("HOME"), ".R/Makevars")))
    CXXFLAGS=-O3 -mtune=native -march=native
    CXXFLAGS= -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused-function -Wno-macro-redefined

CC=clang
CXX=clang++ -arch x86_64 -ftemplate-depth-256

CXXFLAGS=-O3 -mtune=native -march=native
CXXFLAGS= -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused-function -Wno-macro-redefined

CXX14FLAGS=-O3 -march=native -mtune=native
CXX14FLAGS += -arch x86_64 -ftemplate-depth-256

  • Output of devtools::session_info("rstan")

─ Session info ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
setting value
version R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
os macOS Catalina 10.15.1
system x86_64, darwin15.6.0
ui RStudio
language (EN)
collate en_US.UTF-8
ctype en_US.UTF-8
tz Europe/Zurich
date 2019-12-07

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2

I would leave thin at 1. When you get an error from that, what is the output of

traceback()

?

3

Thank you very much for responding.

For “thin=1” it is:

traceback()
9: stop(simpleError(msg, call = if (p ← sys.parent(1L)) sys.call(p)))
8: stopifnot(is.atomic(x))
7: FUN(newX[, i], …)
6: apply(E, 2, var)
5: throw_sampler_warnings(nfits)
4: .local(object, …)
3: sampling(sm, data, pars, chains, iter, warmup, thin, seed, init,
check_data = TRUE, sample_file = sample_file, diagnostic_file = diagnostic_file,
verbose = verbose, algorithm = match.arg(algorithm), control = control,
check_unknown_args = FALSE, cores = cores, open_progress = open_progress,
include = include, …)
2: sampling(sm, data, pars, chains, iter, warmup, thin, seed, init,
check_data = TRUE, sample_file = sample_file, diagnostic_file = diagnostic_file,
verbose = verbose, algorithm = match.arg(algorithm), control = control,
check_unknown_args = FALSE, cores = cores, open_progress = open_progress,
include = include, …)
1: stan(file = “Lucas Playground/Code/Stan2d.stan”, data = CH_data,
iter = 1000, warmup = 1000, chains = 4, thin = 1, init = “random”,
verbose = TRUE, cores = 4, seed = 4321, save_warmup = TRUE)

For “thin=5”

I get these warning messages:
Registered S3 method overwritten by ‘xts’:
method from
as.zoo.xts zoo

and this is the traceback output:

traceback()
10: .local(object, …)
9: extract(x, permuted = FALSE, inc_warmup = FALSE, …)
8: extract(x, permuted = FALSE, inc_warmup = FALSE, …)
7: as.array.stanfit(object)
6: as.array(object)
5: throw_sampler_warnings(nfits)
4: .local(object, …)
3: sampling(sm, data, pars, chains, iter, warmup, thin, seed, init,
check_data = TRUE, sample_file = sample_file, diagnostic_file = diagnostic_file,
verbose = verbose, algorithm = match.arg(algorithm), control = control,
check_unknown_args = FALSE, cores = cores, open_progress = open_progress,
include = include, …)
2: sampling(sm, data, pars, chains, iter, warmup, thin, seed, init,
check_data = TRUE, sample_file = sample_file, diagnostic_file = diagnostic_file,
verbose = verbose, algorithm = match.arg(algorithm), control = control,
check_unknown_args = FALSE, cores = cores, open_progress = open_progress,
include = include, …)
1: stan(file = “Lucas Playground/Code/Stan2d.stan”, data = CH_data,
iter = 1000, warmup = 1000, chains = 4, thin = 5, init = “random”,
verbose = TRUE, cores = 4, seed = 4321, save_warmup = TRUE)

Best wishes,
Lucas

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You set warmup=1000 and iter=1000, but what you probably mean is iter=2000, because iter is the total number of iterations including warmup. This will produce a better error in the next version (https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan/issues/693).

Perhaps there’s a strange interaction with thin which could be a different bug.

5

That is it - thank you!