bug#49314: Stan package broken

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Kyle Andrews <kyle.c.andrews@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I tried to run a "Hello World" stan model using the r-rstan package.
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC R
> stancode="data {
>   int<lower=0> N;
>   vector[N] x;
>   vector[N] y;
> }
> parameters {
>   real alpha;
>   real beta;
>   real<lower=0> sigma;
> }
> model {
>   y ~ normal(alpha + beta * x, sigma);
> }
> "
> stan_lm = stan(model_code = stancode)
> #+END_SRC
>
>
> Running that code I get the error:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> Error in dyn.load(libLFile) : 
>   unable to load shared object '/tmp/Rtmp1AXXXr/file1ffd36a95fa3.so':
>   /gnu/store/741057r2x06zwg6zcmqmdyv51spm6n9i-gfortran-7.5.0-lib/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.29' not found (required by /tmp/Rtmp1AXXXr/file1ffd36a95fa3.so)
> Error in sink(type = "output") : invalid connection
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
> I setup my environment with:
>
> : guix environment --ad-hoc r-rstan r-rstanarm r

I've tried exercising some of the things shown at
https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan/wiki/RStan-Getting-Started in 'guix
shell r-rstan r-rstanarm r-minimal' and it seems to work.  I'm on Guix
commit 17892c5.

Closing.

Thanks for the report!

Maxim