Home

This is the home of the RStan Wiki. There are pages for users and developers.

Users

Instructions for installing and using the latest stable version of RStan on Mac, Linux, and Windows

• RStan Getting Started

Stan language manual, example models, case studies and tutorials

• Documentation

Get help with Stan from developers and other users

• Stan users mailing list

In case you want to build the latest (potentially unstable) version from the source

• How to Build RStan from Source

Developers

• How to Work with the Stan Submodule on GitHub
• Where do I create a new issue?

Troubleshooting

The CRAN binaries don't always work as downloaded, especially for the Mac OS. If attempts to compile a model file result in an error message of the following form:

Error in stanc(file = file, model_code = model_code, model_name = model_name,  : 
  c++ exception (unknown reason)

you will have to install from source. If you have followed the Stan installation instructions and your toolchain is correctly installed, from within R, the command to install from source is:

install.packages("rstan", type="source", repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org');

(Note: the repos argument should be set to the closest/fastest CRAN mirror according to your location).