To anyone who has installed my rmsb Bayesian modeling package for R: Thinking about dropping support for rstan & using the more up-to-date cmdstan approach. Would you be amenable to installing the cmdstan system executable package on your system? #RStats @mcmc_stan
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Absolutely, one thing that would be amazing is putting an option for within chain parallelization like brms. Dr. Harrell, do you have any plans for adding a parametric PH survival model to rmsb?
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Great suggestion. I plan to capitalize on cmdstan's within-chain parallelization in the release following the upcoming one. Regarding survival modeling I'll probably leave that to the amazing rstanarm survival which I wish was on CRAN. @mcmc_stan
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One #RStats issue I need to wrap my head around: cmdstanr is not on CRAN so use of it in my package implies that cmdstanr is listed as a suggested and not an imported package, and no running examples are included in help files.
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I had good luck with Suggests:, even couples with the Additional_repositories: line in DESCRIPTION, and proper conditional use behind `if (requireNamespace("pkg", quietly=TRUE))`. That may be an option here as long as `cmdstanr` is at arm's length only.
Dec 2, 2022 · 2:47 PM UTC
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