Sampler Diagnostics

[Raoul-Kima]

I think I got it working now, using the info from here:

Problems configuring Makevars.win since R 3.6.0

I had been happily using Rstan on several Windows 10 machines with R 3.5.3. However, after updating each to R 3.6.0, I have been unable to compile the C++ code for Stan. The error messages suggest that there are problems finding the C++14 standard. To troubleshoot, I uninstalled R and Rtools and then reinstalled R 3.6.0 and Rtools 3.5 in the default locations. I then followed the instructions on https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan/wiki/RStan-Getting-Started and got the following error when I ran…

and here:

Running rstan with latest R (3.6.0) fails with Error in compileCode

This may have been solved on GitHub: https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan/issues/633 Foogee fixed it by: “changing my Makevars.win file to the below CXX14=$(BINPREF)g++ -O2 -march=native -mtune=native”

Thanks for the help.
Hopefully I can get productive contributing something now, bringing the thread back on topic!