Stan Playground: Stan without installing Stan

Some exciting updates for Stan Playground:

Data generation with extra files

There is now a new tab in the data generation section which lets you add files like csvs that can be accessed by the data scripts

Generating Stan data and code with brms

You can now use BRMS to generate the Stan code and data for use in Stan Playground

Quick share option

The export window now has an option to create a sharable link where all the data for the project is encoded in the URL. This can lead to some very long URLs, but it’s a very quick way to share your models without needing to authenticate for Github Gists.

JOSS Paper

Our paper on Stan Playground was published in JOSS this morning! Journal of Open Source Software: stan-playground: Run Stan models directly in your browser

You can now cite Stan Playground if you find yourself wanting to :)