How to stop Stan processing in MATLABStan?

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Operating System: Windows
Interface Version: MATLABStan
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Hi, is it possible to stop Stan within MATLAB once it has started? I understand there is a kill process in RStan but is there the same thing in MATLAB?

Thanks :)

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I’ve never actually used MatlabStan so I’m not sure. Anyone else know? (I think @avehtari and @brian-lau are the only two developers that are very familiar with MatlabStan)

I don’t think there’s anything special in RStan for this, we just rely on either the stop button in rstudio or cntrl c from the terminal.

How do you normally stop something in Matlab? MatlabStan just wraps CmdStan so maybe command line commands will work.

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And welcome to the Stan forums!

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Thanks for the welcome :). I normally stop processes in MATLAB with ctrl-c but this seems to be running in the background and I can’t see how to stop it. It may be to do with how the actual script was written that calls Stan - I’m talking to the coder later so if I find out I’ll update this thread. Thanks for taking the time to reply :)

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One way to stop the process is to kill it from Task Manager (ctrl + shift + esc). At least this works with Python.

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You can use the stop method of the StanFit object. e.g. StanFitObject.stop()

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Yes that works, thank you :)

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Perfect - yes that works! Thankyou I thought there must be a way to do it from MATLAB :)