Cole Monnahan

Oops I forgot to attach the code. Here it is: ```` ## I installed the development branches of these on 2021-05-04 packageVersion('FishStatsUtils') # 2.10.0 packageVersion('VAST') # 3.8.0 library(VAST) example

Probably update the dependency since really people should update I think. I'm working through the upgrade to 4.0 and got it down to a single warning from `Matrix`.

I'm using 1.7.19

Yeah that sounds reasonable. The temporary solution for anyone finding this is to just install TMB version 1.7.18.

Yeah for SS3 users this makes a lot of sense. I was working with bespoke models so always made sense that each model would have it's own executable. So how...

That's a good suggestion too. I didn't think through very carefully where the chains should be run. Stan uses temporary directories and that's something that might make a lot of...

@wStockhausen sorry for the delay I was not alerted to this issue for some reason. I implemented your fix in [this commit](https://github.com/Cole-Monnahan-NOAA/adnuts/commit/f622d7fc0a7c57009200ed8cdec740abb310e37c). If you have time could you confirm it...

Isn't option 1 just recreating the dev_vector, but more explicitly? Perhaps a better alternative for this option is to get the dev_vector working better in ADMB in general? Seems unlikely...

Maybe I don't understand (likely) but I don't see why it matters whether there is a drift or not. Can we not consider the two approaches (dev_vector vs. post-hoc centering)...

I don't know CASAL at all but from the manual it seems like they already implement Rick's option 2.  Here YCS is year class strength which when put into...