[R-SIG-Mac] Error when fitting a brms model, maybe associated with Catalina MacOS

[Ken Beath]

What worked for me was installing the tools using https://github.com/rmacoslib/r-macos-rtools/releases

and then installing rstan from source ie install.packages(“rstan”,type=“source) as suggested on one of the stan forums

Ken

> On 11 Dec 2019, at 11:09 am, Manuel Spínola <mspinola10 using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear list members,
> 
> When trying to fit this example from the CRAN repository fro brms, I got
> the following error message after the 4th chain.  I am using R 3.6.1 in
> Catalina MacOS.
> 
> 
> library(brms)
> 
> group <- rep(c("treat", "placebo"), each = 30)
> symptom_post <- c(rnorm(30, mean = 1, sd = 2), rnorm(30, mean = 0, sd = 1))
> dat1 <- data.frame(group, symptom_post)
> 
> fit1 <- brm(bf(symptom_post ~ group, sigma ~ group),
>            data = dat1, family = gaussian())
> 
> 
> [1] "Error in sampler$call_sampler(args_list[[i]]) : "
> [2] "  c++ exception (unknown reason)"
> error occurred during calling the sampler; sampling not done
> 
> I think is a problem with Catalina MacOS, but I don´t know how to solve it.
> 
> Manuel
> 
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