Bug#898784: ITP: r-cran-rstan -- GNU R interface to Stan

[Benjamin K Goodrich]

I am the upstream maintainer for RStan. Thank you for packaging it for Debian.

I noticed there is a DFSG concern with the R/sysdata.rda file. The
source to generate that file is in tools/stan-functions.R . If you
like, you could drop R/sysdata.rda and regenerate it at build time by
sourcing tools/stan-functions.R .

Bug#898784: ITP: r-cran-rstan -- GNU R interface to Stan

[Andreas Tille]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andreas Tille 

* Package name: r-cran-rstan
  Version : 2.17.3
  Upstream Author : Jiqiang Guo, Jonah Gabry, Ben Goodrich, Daniel Lee,
* URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=rstan
* License : GPL-3+
  Programming Lang: GNU R
  Description : GNU R interface to Stan
 User-facing R functions are provided to parse, compile, test, estimate,
 and analyze Stan models by accessing the header-only Stan library
 provided by the 'StanHeaders' package. The Stan project develops a
 probabilistic programming language that implements full Bayesian
 statistical inference via Markov Chain Monte Carlo, rough Bayesian
 inference via 'variational' approximation, and (optionally penalized)
 maximum likelihood estimation via optimization. In all three cases,
 automatic differentiation is used to quickly and accurately evaluate
 gradients without burdening the user with the need to derive the partial
 derivatives.

Remark: This package is maintained by Debian R Packages Maintainers at
   https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-rstan
This package belongs to a set of dependencies for r-cran-brms which is
needed to upgrade r-cran-emmeans to the latest upstream version.