September 28, 2012
Stan and RStan 1.0.2
The Stan Development Team is happy to announce the release
of Stan/RStan 1.0.2. See:
1.0.2 is a patch release. Included are fixes that prevent seg faults,
print statments in the modeling language, additional vectorized
probability functions, and additions to the manual. More details are
at the end of this message.
Please don't hesitate to contact the user's group
mailing list with questions, comments, or suggestions.
--- Stan Development Team
V 1.0.2 Release Notes
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Bug Fixes:
-- check ranges for LHS of assignment to prevent seg faults
-- added matrix size and shape tests to avoid seg faults
-- changed matrix to throw domain_error rather than illegal_argument
-- removed template variable names from distribution error msgs
-- indexing fixed for arrays of matrix/vector/row_vector
-- fixed sd() and variance() to return 0.0 for sequences of size 1
-- fixed void return type in auto_covariance
-- patch truncation to return -inf for variates out of range
-- upgraded BUGS ring model to use constraints plus tan2()
New Features:
-- print statements
-- multiply_lower_tri_self_transpose function
-- vectorized several probability functions (see the manual)
Manual Additions:
-- programming guide: IRT models
-- new appendix: style guide
-- new appendix: migrating from Stan
-- new index: function and distribution index