Mitzi Morris

no longer relevant.

is this outdated? close PR?

there's an unused argument to all service call methods: `init_writer` which seems to be intended to capture the initial parameters on the unconstrained scale. used by CmdStan here: https://github.com/stan-dev/cmdstan/blob/a22802cc10fce329036b164ee9c6bd4cbaa7aebc/src/cmdstan/command.hpp#L189 ignored...

question: where is the R community on R-universe as a CRAN alternative? CRAN has been a nightmare for the project - not sure it's worth it.

cf https://github.com/stan-dev/cmdstan/issues/1133

why is this needed in cmdstanr? cmdstan only deals with inputs on the constrained scale.

this proposal only goes halfway towards validating the inputs - it provides names for the variables, but not structure. in particular, matrix and multi-dim array objects are flattened into a...

perhaps I misunderstood the proposal - what does the input for a matrix look like? also, no feature is a trivial amount of work - in order to avoid future...

a general procedure for SBC in and of itself would be huge. the stumbling block is the procedure for generating data. for a given Stan model, the data-generating process is...

> The main alternative is to keep our current system, which is fine though a bit too conservative for some projects to be accepted. I am strongly in favor in...