Re:Statistical Rethinking and Nix
by xitrium on Monday June 08, 2020 @01:50PM
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> Unfortunately, the rethinking package which is a major component of the book itself depends on the V8 engine for some reason.
This is my fault, in a sense. In order to get the new Stan compiler (written in OCaml) distributed via CRAN (which requires everything to be built from source on its antiquated build servers), we decided to use js_of_ocaml to translate the OCaml compiler into javascript. See this thread for more details: https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/a-javascript-stanc3/11044
When I posted that, I didn't really think we would end up using it.
This is my fault, in a sense. In order to get the new Stan compiler (written in OCaml) distributed via CRAN (which requires everything to be built from source on its antiquated build servers), we decided to use js_of_ocaml to translate the OCaml compiler into javascript. See this thread for more details: https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/a-javascript-stanc3/11044
When I posted that, I didn't really think we would end up using it.