Brian Ward

Add a `repair_variable_names` function

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This allows you to translate from the names Stan uses (like `theta.1`) to those Posterior wants (`theta[1]`). This function exists (privately) in cmdstanr, and is currently very simple: ```R repair_variable_names

Benchmarking js_of_ocaml library with `auto` only times constructor

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I have been trying to use the new compatibility with js_of_ocaml added in #36. I have my code organized into a library with the final part of my code being...

[UTS 39](https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/) specifies a list of "[confusables](https://www.unicode.org/Public/security/revision-05/confusables.txt)" as well as "[intentional confusables](https://www.unicode.org/Public/security/revision-05/intentional.txt)". These are characters like the greek and cyrillic characters which look identical but are not normalized to each...

reduce_sum fails if tuples are passed

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## Description First reported [on the forums](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/issues-with-tuples-in-cmdstanr/34626/5) The issue appears to be because `deep_copy_vars` does not have an overload for tuples. ## Example Partial example given on the forums: ```stan...

Provide versioned sub-URLs

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This is really more of a potential solution to #25 than a feature request it its own right, but it seems to me like the frontend website is small enough...

stanc: preserve blank lines in source

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#### Summary: This adds the `blank.lines.skip=FALSE` argument to `scan` used in `stanc_process`, which fixes the issue where line numbers reported by stanc did not match the source in compiler or...

#### Description: It has come up several times on the forums that the line numbers reported by RStan are incorrect. The most recent is here: https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/stan-error-messages/34820 The reportee (@cdriveraus) provided...

Add more in-depth description of Pathfinder to the reference-manual

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The current page is at https://mc-stan.org/docs/reference-manual/pathfinder.html, source: https://github.com/stan-dev/docs/blob/master/src/reference-manual/pathfinder.qmd There is not currently a good description of the algorithmic tuning parameters or stages of the algorithm, especially compared to e.g. HMC...

In terms of naming arguments, inconsistencies in notation to iron out (little vs. big N for example in sizing, for example), etc. Originally posted by @bob-carpenter in https://github.com/stan-dev/docs/pull/678#pullrequestreview-1801159337, see additional...

`num_chains` documentation implies filenames are different in sequential and parallel cases

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#### Summary: The [Multi Chain Sampling](https://mc-stan.org/docs/cmdstan-guide/mcmc-intro.html#multi-chain-sampling) section includes the following sentence > If the model was not compiled with `STAN_THREADS=true`, the above command will run 4 chains sequentially and will...