Print debugging from within functions

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Hi Stan team -

It seems like print() statements don’t work inside functions. At least this is my experience with cmdstanR and the latest cmdstan.

This is somewhat of a problem with the way that reduce_sum works, packing everything into a function. Without being able to debug, it gets tricky to figure out what’s going on inside that function.

Any ideas/recommendations/eye rolls?

Bob

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This model works for me with cmdstan 2.24 on the command line and in the Github cmdstanr:

functions {
  real foo(real a) {
    print(a);
    return a;
  }
}

parameters {
  real a;
}

model {
  foo(a) ~ normal(0, 1);
}

Can you try this out?

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@saudiwin there is a known bug that prints do not show for transformed data in cmdstanr https://github.com/stan-dev/cmdstanr/issues/269

It still shows up if you do fit$output(id) but that is obviously less helpful.

If it does not work anywhere else, we would very much like to know more. Thanks!

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If it’s in reduce_sum, would disabling threading help?

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