1 General information

rstan provides the R interface for Stan, a platform for statistical modeling and high-performance statistical computation.

To be compatible with our R installation, we recommend to install the development version of rstan.

2 Installation

On Helix, rstan can be installed without any major changes to the surroundings. You can run

> install.packages("rstan")

in R on a Login-node to install rstan.

To check whether the installation worked, make a test run in R

> library(rstan)
> example(stan_model, package = "rstan", run.dontrun = TRUE)