download cmdstan as artifact

[filchristou]

are there plans to download cmdstan as an artifact rather than having to manually install it ? It would be so much easier for a beginner to just do ] add Stan and start coding.

[goedman]

Hi @filchristou

That has been attempted many times without success. Stan needs a compiler (written in Occam) to translate Stan Language programs to C++ and subsequently compiles and links that newly generated C++ code into the cmdstan executable.

On which platform do you work? For Linux and MacOS I suggest using git, on windows the coda route.

Rob

[filchristou]

I work in Linux and it was just needed to download cmdstan-2.30.1.tar.gz from https://github.com/stan-dev/cmdstan/releases

[goedman]

Yip, that's the easier case.

Let me know if you need further help.

[filchristou]

No help needed. Just wondering if that could be automated as an artifact in the first place.