New to Stan, Error when running model

Modeling
1

I am using this github: https://github.com/CoryMcCartan/senate
Running on windows 10, rtools40, R 4.0.2
The error comes when the model is being recompiled
I’ve tried numerous troubleshoots online with no fix

The error I get is:

Compiling Stan program…
C:/Users/riley/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpYDSJ9G/model-12e07704473d.hpp:3:10: fatal error: stan/model/model_header.hpp: No such file or directory
#include <stan/model/model_header.hpp>
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
mingw32-make.exe: *** [make/program:61: C:/Users/riley/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpYDSJ9G/model-12e07704473d.exe] Error 1
Error: An error occured during compilation! See the message above for more information.

2

Hi Riley,

Just to clarify, the error only happens when the model is being re-compiled, there’s no error when compiling the first time?

3

It compiles other models in the program. It will throw the error when compiling this stan model for the first time.

4

Can you post the code you use to prepare the data and run the model?

5

polls_model_path = file.path(opt$model_dir, “polls”)
…
model_d = compose_data(polls_d, .n_name = n_prefix(“N”),
N_race = nrow(race_prior_d2020),
D = n_days,
W = n_weeks,
D_W = ceiling(n_days/n_weeks),
week_frac,
week_day = floor(wnum) + 1,
prior_natl_mean = mean(natl_prior_pred),
prior_natl_sd = sd(natl_prior_pred),
prior_race_mean = race_prior_mean,
prior_race_cov = race_prior_cov,
prior_rv_bias = 0.011,
prior_lv_bias = 0.0,
prior_a_bias = 0.02,
lv_rv_ratio = 8,
poll_errors,
)

#this is the line that causes the error
polls_model = get_polls_m(polls_model_path, opt$recompile)

6

What happens if you run:

polls_model = cmdstan_model("stan/polls.stan")

instead?

7

That worked perfectly, thank you so much!
Mind if I ask what’s the difference?

8

I’m not entirely sure, but as a guess, could you try running:

polls_model = cmdstan_model("stan/polls.stan", cpp_options=list(CXXFLAGS="-Ofast"))

And see if you get the same error as before?

9

That works without error as well

10

What about:

polls_model = get_polls_m(polls_model_path, recompile = TRUE)
11

also working
I’m not too sure what the issue was… hm

12

That is an odd one. Do you still get the error with:

polls_model = get_polls_m(polls_model_path, opt$recompile)

If so, I wonder if it’s the opt list, maybe try:

opt$recompile = TRUE
polls_model = get_polls_m(polls_model_path, opt$recompile)