Robert Grant

We get the text to display the CmdStan version. We extract a substring but now the stanc --version output has changed, it pulls out the wrong part of the string....

Stata error codes should be more specific, following -error- in the [P] manual. This turns up a lot in the checking for existing files, which surely could be simplified to...

This is about strings that are too long for Stata.

The initsfile option takes one filename as an argument. This needs to accommodate a series of starting values for parallel chains. The RStan approach is a list of lists, or...

Allow multiple inline model comment blocks (Thompson method)

1

Probably by having Stata search for a given name on the first line of the block, rather than just the first one with "data {"

If load or mode option is specified and the compiling fails, it might still find a "statastan_chains.csv" or other files and carry on producing outputs.