Repository for distributing (some) stan-dev R packages

A place for publishing new versions of (some) stan-dev R packages before they reach CRAN and for stan-dev R packages and versions where releasing on CRAN is not a (current) goal. As of 2021-03-16 this is most relevant for rstan, where the CRAN version is unfortunately several releases behind and pushing a new version to CRAN has been difficult.

The packages currently hosted in this repository are:

• cmdstanr
• rstan
• StanHeaders (required for rstan)
• rstanarm (Survival branch - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.09633.pdf)

To install latest rstan or other packages from the repo, add https://mc-stan.org/r-packages/ to your repository list, e.g.:

install.packages("rstan", repos = c("https://mc-stan.org/r-packages/", getOption("repos")))

How to publish/update packages on this repository

For stan-dev/r-packages maintainers

1. Install the drat package

install.packages("drat")

2. Clone this repository and make sure you are on the gh-pages branch (the default branch).

git clone https://github.com/stan-dev/r-packages
git status

3. Create the package tarball (tar.gz) file

devtools::build()

or

R CMD build packageFolder

4. Run drat to update the repository

drat::insertPackage("path/to/package_tarball.tar.gz", "path/to/r-packages/")

For example:

drat::insertPackage("cmdstanr_0.4.0.tar.gz", "r-packages/")

5. Commit and push changes to the stan-dev/r-packages repository.

For others that wish to publish their package on https://mc-stan.org/r-packages

1. Install the drat package

install.packages("drat")

2. Fork this repository, clone your fork and make sure you are on the gh-pages branch (the default branch).

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/r-packages
git status

3. Create the package tarball (tar.gz) file

devtools::build()

or

R CMD build packageFolder

4. Run drat to update the repository

drat::insertPackage("path/to/package_tarball.tar.gz", "path/to/r-packages/")

For example:

drat::insertPackage("cmdstanr_0.4.0.tar.gz", "r-packages/")

5. Commit and push changes to your repository yourusername/r-packages.

6. Open a pull request on this repository to add your package.