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

[Manuel Spínola]

An update.

Before doing the suggested installation, I updated Catalina to 10.5.2,
Xtools to 11.3 and the Command Line Tools and it works.

Manuel

El mié., 11 dic. 2019 a las 16:05, Ken Beath (<ken using kjbeath.com.au>)
escribió:

> No, it only downloads and installs the right compilers and updates
> Makevars and REnvirons. These are what Stan and RCpp require so you could
> do these manually.
>
> What it does is described at https://github.com/rmacoslib/r-macos-rtools
>
> Ken
>
> > On 12 Dec 2019, at 1:14 am, Manuel Spínola <mspinola10 using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you very much to all.
> >
> > Does Installing the macos-rtools could affect R in other ways?
> >
> > Manuel
> >
> > El mié., 11 dic. 2019 a las 6:56, Ken Beath (<ken using kjbeath.com.au>)
> escribió:
> > 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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-- 
*Manuel Spínola, Ph.D.*
Instituto Internacional en Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre
Universidad Nacional
Apartado 1350-3000
Heredia
COSTA RICA
mspinola using una.cr <mspinola using una.ac.cr>
mspinola10 using gmail.com
Teléfono: (506) 8706 - 4662
Personal website: Lobito de río <https://sites.google.com/site/lobitoderio/>
Institutional website: ICOMVIS <http://www.icomvis.una.ac.cr/>

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