I need to upgrade my OS from Catalina as Apple will stop security updates probably this year. I remember at the time getting RStan to run on Catalina took a while to figure out. What is the latest OS that RStan runs on easily, are any of them fine?

I use Monterey 12.6 and it works fine :)

I am running rstan on Ventura (13.0) on the M1 chips. It was a little weird to figure out how to get it running. Downloaded Xcode from the App store. Open up Xcode and select the Install option (this was not clear). Like really, I have to install twice eyeroll Go to the Apple Developer website an…

Didn’t xcode-select --install work in the terminal? Good to see that it works Okish :)

The xcode select command in the terminal fails on my end. It helpful replies that everything is already installed and to use the software updater. Which does nothing laugh-cry .

Hey @Ara_Winter , Have you had an luck with CmdStan in Ventura? I also updated macOS and cmdstanr::install_cmdstan() produces an error at xattr -d com.apple.quarantine bin/stanc. Seems like that “file” does not exist in that location. I’ll keep troubleshooting, but wondered if there were others w…

I grabbed the arm build (edit: Apple Silicon, M1 ) from here Releases · stan-dev/cmdstan · GitHub and it runs. I did the following Make - which returned no errors make examples/bernoulli/bernoulli which throws a bunch of errors around sprintf. Some dire security warnings. examples/bernoulli/berno…

I upgraded to Ventura. xcode-select --install simply verified I had everything installed. All seems to work without a problem (incl. cmdstanr and cmdstan).

@torkar , are you using Apple or Intel silicon? I have an Intel-based macOS machine and have yet to resolve a path forward with cmdstan/cmdstanr. I’ve managed to replicate this issue on two different computers (both Intel macOS). From what I’ve been able to gather, the xattr -d com.apple.quarantine…

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Alright, I’ve created a separate topic to address my issue. Thanks all!

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