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model extractor for LaTeX input for manual(s)

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Use (and perhaps upgrade) the java2tex system for the manuals. That will allow naming blocks of models with comments and then pulling the relevant text out into a LaTeX-friendly file...

bob-carpenter

manual longer term

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This is the issue for things that would be nice to get into the manual in the future. Rather than closing this issue, we'll just tick things off as part...

bob-carpenter

manual testing framework

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We aren't testing code that goes into the manual thoroughly and automatically enough. We need a framework where code citations in the manual are automatically extracted from running code and...

bob-carpenter

#### Summary: Somewhere in the docs we need to list the minimal requirements for running Stan. This used to be in the CmdStan manual (I think), and on some of...

mitzimorris

#### Summary: question from Stan slack: > The section on [Sparse data structures](https://mc-stan.org/docs/stan-users-guide/sparse-ragged.html#sparse-data-structures) solves the problem of sparse data by converting the data to "long" format, and using a for-loop...

mitzimorris

Edit to macOS C++ install docs

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#### Submission Checklist - [x] Builds locally - [x] New functions marked with `` `` - [x] Declare copyright holder and open-source license: see below #### Summary As currently written,...

JoFrhwld

Adds docs for row and column stochastic matrix types. I tried not to repeat myself too much by doing something similar to what Eigen does for [csr](https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/group__TutorialSparse.html) matrices and csc...

SteveBronder

Ordinal logit documentation misses base case

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#### Summary: The signature listed is ``` real ordered_logistic_lpmf(ints k | vector eta, vectors c); ``` This function can take a scalar `eta`, so the type here should be `reals`....

bob-carpenter

GP Covariance Functions: minor tweak

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#### Summary: This is really small, but I think that the [documentation for Gaussian Processes](https://mc-stan.org/docs/stan-users-guide/gaussian-processes.html) uses the old cov_exp_quad, instead of gp_exp_quad_cov and the like. #### Description: For instance, the...

joshuaalley

typo/wrong parameter name in text of chapter "problematic posteriors"

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#### Summary: wrong parameter name in text of problematic posteriors #### Description: https://mc-stan.org/docs/stan-users-guide/problematic-posteriors.html section: Mitigating the invariances subsection: Pinning parameters sentence: "To solve this problem, one of the difficulty parameters,...

jessekps