Stan stickers?

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Someone just told me he wanted to order a Stan sticker for his laptop, but such stickers are not available on the website, which just has t-shirts and mugs. Does someone know how to make stickers available? Thanks!

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We’ve just been ordering them in bulk from stickermule.com. We have the templates if you want to order some.

To make them available online, someone would need to set up a storefront like we did with t-shirts. We use spreadshirt.com for that, but they don’t sell stickers.

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As the someone in question, I’d happily just take the template and order some samples for myself if you are willing to share it.

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Sorry I didn’t see this earlier. I get so many flags on this site that I just ignore them as I can’t filter them.

I logged into StickerMule, but will need your email to share. If you send me email at carp@alias-i.com, I can send you the form for these two:

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Is there still an option for these stickers? I note Bob’s Alias email in previous post appears to be not working, at least not for me.

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Good question! Maybe @SGB can help?

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I’ve been playing around with logos and made some available here: Mitzi Morris (@f8ee999277f42ea) | Sticker Mule

the classic Stan logo plus name - stan logo name small | Die cut stickers | Free shipping | Sticker Mule
also for hipsters, Wes Anderson palettes.

the Stan logos repository also has an eps file for Stan hex logos: https://github.com/stan-dev/logos/blob/master/stan_hex_cut.svg

also the rainbow Stan logo: https://github.com/stan-dev/logos/blob/master/stan_logo_rainbow.png

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Is there a unique RStan logo? E.g., when I go to the RStan GitHub ( rstan/rstan/rstan/man/figures at develop · stan-dev/rstan · GitHub ) I just see the generic Stan logo.

My use case is I’m making a figure in a book that graphically describes the relations among R, RStudio, RStan, and Stan. The current version of the figure just depicts them by their names, but it would be pretty cool if I could represent each with a logo, would require different logos for Stan and RStan.

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There are no unique logos for Stan and different R and Python packages

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Could you please mention CmdStanR? RStan is at Stan version 2.32.7, whereas CmdStanR keeps up with the latest Stan releases (2.37). Other differences:

  • easier to install (especially for Windows users)
  • more permissive license - CmdStanR is BSD, RStan is GPL.

also, there is a hex logo for Stan in Stan’s logos repository - GitHub - stan-dev/logos: Stan logos

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Bummer. Thanks for the clarification.

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I’ll mention CmdStanR in passing, but the book focuses on CRAN packages.

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I’m easy to find online: bcarpenter@flatironinstitute.org

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RStan may be on CRAN, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there was never another RStan release. It’s now over 2 years behind our releases and @bgoodri now has a full-time teaching job.

The reason is CRAN policies:

  • 1MB package size limits
  • no version dependency control which is the main bottleneck to releasing
  • hundreds of dependent packages blocking us with arbitrary unit tests
  • one of the main CRAN maintainers insisting things run on their home machine we don’t even have access to
  • weird tooling around C++ like alpha releases being “standard”
  • requirements to run on ancient hardware like SPARC due to legal entanglements of the R Foundation

As a result, we have no plans to put CmdStanR on CRAN because RStan being on CRAN has been perhaps the single biggest time sink of our entire project. We simply don’t have the resources to put another project on CRAN.

PyPI (the Python analogue of CRAN) doesn’t have any of these problems, so CmdStanPy and BridgeStan are both on PyPI.

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I think PyPI is closer to R-universe than CRAN.

CmdStanR is also in R-universe cmdstanr: R Interface to 'CmdStan', and can be installed in the usual way

install.packages('cmdstanr', repos = c('https://stan-dev.r-universe.dev')

(I know there are companies that allow installing only from CRAN, and it may take some effort to get permission to install from R-universe)

We seem to have gone quite far from how to get Stan stickers

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I agree with Aki and Bob that it would be better to focus on cmdstanr, which is indeed very easy to install and use!

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The only issue is company IT policies that sometimes only allow installation of R packages from CRAN. Agh.

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Exactly. I only ever use rstan because of this very thing.