stan-dev/cmdstanr v0.2.0

cmdstanr v0.2.0

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You can install version 0.2.0 using either of the following lines:

install.packages("cmdstanr", repos = c("https://mc-stan.org/r-packages/", getOption("repos")))

remotes::install_github("stan-dev/cmdstanr", ref = "v0.2.0")

Bug fixes

• Fix potential indexing error if using read_cmdstan_csv() with CSV files
  created by CmdStan without CmdStanR. (#291, #292, @johnlees)

• Fix error when returning draws or sampler diagnostics for a fit with only warmup
  and no samples. (#288, #293)

• Fix trailing slashes issue for dir in cmdstan_model() and output_dir
  in fitting methods. (#281, #294)

• Fix dimensions error when processing a list of matrices passed in as data. (#296, #302)

• Fix reporting of time after using fixed_param method. (#303, #307)

• With refresh = 0, no output other than error messages is printed with
  $optimize() and $variational(). (#324)

• Fix issue where names of generated files could clash. (#326, #328)

• Fix missing include_paths in $syntax_check(). (#335, @mike-lawrence)

New features

• CSV reading is now faster by using data.table::fread(). (#318)

• install_cmdstan() gains argument version for specifying which version of
  CmdStan to install. (#300, #308)

• New function check_cmdstan_toolchain() that checks if the appropriate
  toolchains are available. (#289)

• $sample() method for CmdStanModel objects gains argument chain_ids for
  specifying custom chain IDs. (#319)

• Added support for the sig_figs argument in CmdStan versions 2.25 and above. (#327)

• Added checks if the user has the necessary permissions in the RTools and temporary folders. (#343)