Browse other R packages to make sure I'm not doubling up too heavily

[njtierney]

bmk boa mcgibbsit plotMCMC ggmcmc shinystan

[njtierney]

Only plotMCMC and ggmcmc contain vignettes.

Shinystan seems like the main thing this package will come up against. Let's see how it goes.

boa seems nice, but it is a menu driven system, and provides a lot of extra assistance to users. This package will be a bit different to that, as its main goal is speed, first, and prettiness second.

[njtierney]

Just note keeping.

• bmk and mcgibbsit are out. I capped both bmk::bmksummary and mcgibbsit::mcgibbsit at 30 seconds to run a summary that the data.table code ran in 9 seconds.

[njtierney]

Aha! Rasmus Baath is all over it:

http://www.sumsar.net/blog/2015/12/bayes-js-a-small-library-for-doing-mcmc-in-the-browser/

[njtierney]

Looks like MCMCvis does some good work as well, although it technically isn't in the tidy data way of doing things.

[njtierney]

Here's a blog post from MCMCvis

[samclifford]

I can't believe you missed https://github.com/bragqut/tidymcmc. Is there a reason you're using data.table instead of tibbles? The way it handles large data objects? Do we want to merge tidymcmc::tidy.mcmc.list() into this package and provide an alternative set of tidyverse-inspired tools for dealing with mcmc.list objects?

[njtierney]

Sorry mate! your tidymcmc was the whole inspiration for this.

I'm using data.table instead of a tibble because it needs to be able to handle large objects (e.g., 20K samples * 2K observations).

I would love to merge tidymcmc::tidy.mcmc.list() into this, I think this would be a really fun / needed project.

[samclifford]

Has this lapsed? Given tidymcmc has been merged in it feels like we can close this.

[njtierney]

note quite lapsed, this is an issue to collect related packages and resolve / discuss overlap.

[samclifford]

Seen this? https://github.com/mjskay/tidybayes

[njtierney]

https://github.com/stan-dev/posterior