packaging stan

2013-08-03 Thread Ross Boylan
I am thinking of packaging stan and rstan, and would appreciate some advice. stan is a program for doing Bayesian analysis with a variant of hybrid/Hamiltonian monte carlo. http://mc-stan.org/ homepage; https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan.git and https://github.com/stan-dev/stan.git for code

Re: packaging stan

2013-08-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Ross On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 08:06:16AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I am thinking of packaging stan and rstan, and would appreciate some advice. Nice. stan is a program for doing Bayesian analysis with a variant of hybrid/Hamiltonian monte carlo. http://mc-stan.org/ homepage; https

Re: packaging stan

2013-08-03 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 12:50:53PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: Hi Ross On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 08:06:16AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I am thinking of packaging stan and rstan, and would appreciate some advice

Re: packaging stan

2013-08-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Michael Banck mba...@debian.org wrote: ... It sounds like rstan is an R wrapper around stan? Then I would assume it should be possible to build/use rstan without the full stan source being around. I believe that's correct. At runtime I think rstan needs

Re: packaging stan

2013-08-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 3 August 2013 at 14:58, Ross Boylan wrote: | Is stan building a shared or static library? | | Yes.  Not sure which. Almost surely shared because ... |  If not, that may be the | missing link between the two.  Requiring the stan source be present when | building rstan (as a