# RStan aborting in RStudio

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**Category:** RStan\
**Created:** [March 26, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/rstan-aborting-in-rstudio/8236 "2019-03-26T13:50:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![aboslett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@aboslett](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/u/aboslett)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/rstan-aborting-in-rstudio/8236/1 "2019-03-26T13:50:50Z")

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I’ve tried to install RStan with some success in that I can load the library and read the help vignettes. However, when I try to run a basic .stan file (e.g., 8schools.stan example), it crashes my RStudio.

I’ve followed the instructions from [https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan/wiki/RStan-Getting-Started](https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan/wiki/RStan-Getting-Started). It asks me to install additional build tools, which I’ve accepted. It then asks if I want to reinstall Rtools, which I do. Everything appears to be OK. I set up the parameters and then I run the .stan file and, moments later, RStudio crashes. Any information on how to get around this issue?

- Windows 10 (Version: 1709; Build: 16299.611)
- RStan Version (2.18.2)
- Output of `writeLines(readLines(file.path(Sys.getenv("HOME"), ".R/Makevars")))`

- No such file or directory

- Output of `devtools::session_info("rstan")`

- See below:

- Session info -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  
setting value  
version R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)  
os Windows \>= 8 x64  
system x86\_64, mingw32  
ui RStudio  
language (EN)  
collate English\_United States.1252  
ctype English\_United States.1252  
tz America/New\_York  
date 2019-03-26

- Packages -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  
package \* version date lib source  
assertthat 0.2.0 2017-04-11 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
backports 1.1.2 2017-12-13 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.0)  
base64enc 0.1-3 2015-07-28 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.0)  
BH 1.69.0-1 2019-01-07 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)  
callr 3.0.0 2018-08-24 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
cli 1.0.1 2018-09-25 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)  
colorspace 1.4-0 2019-01-13 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)  
crayon 1.3.4 2017-09-16 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
desc 1.2.0 2018-05-01 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
digest 0.6.18 2018-10-10 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)  
fansi 0.4.0 2018-10-05 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)  
ggplot2 \* 3.0.0 2018-07-03 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
glue 1.3.0 2018-07-17 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
gridExtra 2.3 2017-09-09 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
gtable 0.2.0 2016-02-26 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
inline 0.3.15 2018-05-18 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)  
labeling 0.3 2014-08-23 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.0)  
lattice 0.20-35 2017-03-25 [2] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
lazyeval 0.2.1 2017-10-29 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
loo 2.0.0 2018-04-11 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)  
magrittr 1.5 2014-11-22 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)  
MASS 7.3-50 2018-04-30 [2] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
Matrix 1.2-14 2018-04-13 [2] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
matrixStats 0.54.0 2018-07-23 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)  
mgcv 1.8-24 2018-06-23 [2] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
munsell 0.5.0 2018-06-12 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
nlme 3.1-137 2018-04-07 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.3)  
pillar 1.3.1 2018-12-15 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)  
pkgbuild 1.0.2 2018-10-16 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
pkgconfig 2.0.2 2018-08-16 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
plyr 1.8.4 2016-06-08 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
prettyunits 1.0.2 2015-07-13 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
processx 3.2.0 2018-08-16 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
ps 1.1.0 2018-08-10 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
R6 2.2.2 2017-06-17 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
RColorBrewer 1.1-2 2014-12-07 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.0)  
Rcpp 1.0.0 2018-11-07 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)  
RcppEigen 0.3.3.5.0 2018-11-24 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)  
reshape2 1.4.3 2017-12-11 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
rlang 0.3.1 2019-01-08 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)  
rprojroot 1.3-2 2018-01-03 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
rstan \* 2.18.2 2018-11-07 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.3)  
scales 1.0.0 2018-08-09 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)  
StanHeaders \* 2.18.1 2019-01-28 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)  
stringi 1.1.7 2018-03-12 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.0)  
stringr 1.3.1 2018-05-10 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
tibble 2.0.1 2019-01-12 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.2)  
utf8 1.1.4 2018-05-24 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
viridisLite 0.3.0 2018-02-01 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)  
withr 2.1.2 2018-03-15 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)

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**Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/rstan-aborting-in-rstudio/8236/2 "2019-03-26T13:57:10Z")

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I would try running it from Rterm to see if there is any message printed. Also, if you call `tempdir()` before running Stan, you can see where the temporary directory is and there might be some information printed in the text files. There are some crashes with ODE functions on Windows, but it shouldn’t happen on just regular Stan programs.