The print command has been marked deprecated since 2015 (!).
It needs to be removed because it depends on methods in stansummary_helper.hpp; changing these as part of #1263 breaks print.
Description:
Stan PR https://github.com/stan-dev/stan/pull/3305 introduces a new object, chainset which is easier to deal with than the data structures used by chains. This refactoring made it much easier to implement the computation of split-rank normalized ESS and Rhat, giving separate estimates of for the bulk and tails of the posterior. In order to add these diagnostics to stansummary, it is necessary to use a chainset object everywhere, instead of a chains object. The print utility uses functions stansummary_helper; changes to the function signatures breaks print.
IMO, it's not worth the programming effort to further patch print. Can we remove it in the next release?
bob-carpenter
commented
2 months ago
Summary:
The
printcommand has been marked deprecated since 2015 (!). It needs to be removed because it depends on methods instansummary_helper.hpp; changing these as part of #1263 breaksprint.Description:
Stan PR https://github.com/stan-dev/stan/pull/3305 introduces a new object,
chainsetwhich is easier to deal with than the data structures used bychains. This refactoring made it much easier to implement the computation of split-rank normalized ESS and Rhat, giving separate estimates of for the bulk and tails of the posterior. In order to add these diagnostics to stansummary, it is necessary to use a chainset object everywhere, instead of a chains object. The print utility uses functionsstansummary_helper; changes to the function signatures breaks print.IMO, it's not worth the programming effort to further patch print. Can we remove it in the next release?
Current Version:
v2.35.0