Changelog

New website with online documentation: https://mc-stan.org/shinystan
Fixed problem with extracting info from fits reconstructed from CSV files (#128,#158), thanks to @martinmodrak

launch_shinystan is now an S3 generic with methods. This allows developers of packages that use shinystan to create their own launch_shinystan methods instead of using a different function name or creating a naming conflict.

Fix various issues resulting in errors for models fit using static HMC (thanks to Cole Monnahan).
Deprecate burnin argument to as.shinystan. Use warmup instead. Only relevant for models not fit using Stan.

Add NUTS energy diagnostic plots to Diagnose page
Allowing passing sampler_params to as.shinystan. This makes it possible to display sampler diagnositcs for HMC/NUTS even if not using Stan’s implementation of those algorithms (thanks to Cole Monnahan).

Better compatibility with latest releases of ‘shinyjs’ and ‘DT’ packages
shinystan::launch_shinystan_demo() now works without first having to load the package with a call to library
Unless running on a server, the app now stops running when browser tab is closed

Fix bug in deploy_shinystan preventing some ShinyStan apps from being deployed

Add optional argument pars to the as.shinystan method for stanfit objects, allowing a subset of parameters to be selected for inclusion in the resulting shinystan object.
Introduce drop_parameters function for removing parameters from a shinystan object (useful for very large objects when you only want to look at a subset of parameters).
Add rstanarm to Suggests (in the DESCRIPTION file) so rstanarm::pp_check can be called.
Allow selecting yrep from global environment for PPcheck
Change as.shinystan to S4 generic with methods
Add rsconnect to Imports in DESCRIPTION.
Rename some of the slots in shinystan objects. The update_sso function can be used to ensure that old shinystan objects have an internal structure compatible with this release.
Improve line coverage of api tests

Compatibility with recent ggplot2 update
Select parameters via regular expressions in parameters plot (‘Estimate’ page)
Fix error when selecting an entire parameter group in parameters plot (‘Estimate’ page)

Version 2.0.0 has a new look, a new(ish) name, and a lot of new functionality. Many bugs have also been fixed (see GitHub issue tracker).

The deploy_shinystan function lets you easily deploy ShinyStan apps to RStudio’s shinyapps.io for any of your models. Each of your apps (i.e. each of your models) will have a unique url.

Rebranding (new look to reflect changes to Stan logo and website)
HMC/NUTS diagnostic plots (‘Diagnose’ page, ‘HMC/NUTS (plots)’ tab)
Specify transformations (e.g. log, logit, sqrt, etc.) for density, histogram, bivariate, trivariate plots (on ‘Explore’ page) and HMC/NUTS diagnostics plots.
Many plots can now also be saved as pdf
Bivariate scatterplot plot also shows divergent transitions and max treedepth saturation (on ‘Explore’ page)
More detailed glossary entries
(Experimental) Introduce basic graphical posterior predictive checking (‘Diagnose’ page, ‘PPcheck’ tab) for limited class of models
Option to show partial autocorrelations (‘Diagnose’ page, ‘Autocorrelation’ tab)
Better customization of of posterior summary statistics table
Many improvements to GUI design

shinystan 2.6.02022-03-02