v2.0.0

Installation

Installation instructions for the latest version of the shinystan R package

Notes

Version 2.0.0 has a new look, a new(ish) name, and a lot of new functionality.
Many bugs have also been fixed (see issue tracker).

Names

• The name of the R package is shinystan and the app/GUI is ShinyStan.

Deploy ShinyStan apps to shinyapps.io (RStudio's ShinyApps service)

• The deploy_shinystan function lets you easily deploying ShinyStan apps
  to RStudio's shinyapps.io for any of your models. Each of your apps
  (i.e. each of your models) will have a unique url.

Some of the new features in ShinyStan app

• Rebranding (new look to reflect changes to Stan logo and website)
• Interactive HMC/NUTS diagnostic plots ('Diagnose' page, 'NUTS (plots)' tab)
• Specify transformations (e.g. log, logit, sqrt, etc.) for density,
  histogram, bivariate, trivariate plots (on 'Explore' page) and NUTS diagnostics
  plots.
• Many plots can now also be saved as pdf
• Bivariate scatterplot plot also shows divergent transitions and max treedepth
  saturation (on 'Explore' page)
• More detailed glossary entries
• (Experimental) Introduce basic graphical posterior predictive
  checking ('Diagnose' page, 'PPcheck' tab) for limited class of models
• Option to show partial autocorrelations ('Diagnose' page, 'Autocorrelation' tab)
• Better customization of of posterior summary statistics table
• Many improvements to GUI design