Hello…I hope this great community can kindly share any advice, tips and personal experiences with me. I have been using an iMac + Stan + RStan + RStudio, and have been delighted with how fantastic it all works…brilliant job developers! The models I fit are non-linear mixed effect models with perha…

Regarding Mac vs Windows, CmdStanR installs pretty easily on Windows - if you have good reasons for getting a Windows box, CmdStanR should work for you. So answer to Q 1 is “either” (but almost all of the Stan devs work on Macs or Linux boxes, except for the gamers). In terms of RStan vs CmdStanR…

Have you considered installing a Linux OS and then run R and CmdStanR?

thanks for your reply. Interesting to hear that most developers use Mac/Linux…the type of answer I was interested in knowing (i.e. if most “power” users uses Mac, then information/fixes for this OS will be fixed asap. Thanks!

No…I am familiar with Mac and Windows, but not Linux. Not sure what Linux would offer (easy of installation?), but would not expect major speed difference. Thanks for your thoughts here though.

I think with Linux, it’s easier to install and manipulate matrix libraries and thus have a faster computation.

Thanks Sonicking. Perhaps if you have any link or blog where someone has compared Linux to Windows or Mac, that could help me (and others). At the moment, I am thinking both have c code “running” Stan, so wouldn’t expect major differences, but I am out of my depth here. cheers Al

It should work for Mac too, but I don’t know how well compared to Linux: Transitioning from x86 to arm64 on macOS - experiences of an R user Personal website and blogging space

From my personal use - I find rstan a bit easier to use, but CmdStanR supports more advanced functionality like parallelizing and profiling. rstan keeps samples in memory and CmdStanR writes them to file, then reads them back into memory as needed. I started as a happy rstan user but have moved to …

[image] Al_in_Sweden: I have had problems installing Stan/RStan on a Windows machine, but perhaps was unlucky. Mac worked perfectly. Do other users/developers have a preference here? Has anyone any experience with the new Mac Studio?..are you happy? If it helps - I recently switched to one of…

Thanks Tom…yes, my interest in continuing to use RStan was how easy it was to use, and how simple the workflow was (e.g. an R program that read in the raw data, made it “Stan ready” (e.g. with character coding to numeric coding), then define initial estimates, then call Stan with list of arguments s…

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This is one example: Speedup by using external BLAS/LAPACK with CmdStan and CmdStanR/Py

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