This is a major version with breaking changes. The Stan backend has been swapped from rstan to cmdstanr, and CmdStan is now a system dependency rather than something compiled at install time.
- No C++ code is compiled when the package is installed;
LinkingTois empty. - Stan models compile on first use via cmdstanr's lazy compilation (cached on disk by cmdstanr after the initial build).
- Users must install CmdStan once via
cmdstanr::install_cmdstan()before fitting models. Tests and examples that fit models are wrapped in\dontrun{}/skip_on_cran()so CRAN check machines do not need CmdStan. - Minimum R version raised to 4.4.
No ERRORs or WARNINGs expected. The package size NOTE persists due to the
bundled example data and inst/stan files; the previous "GNU make required"
NOTE is gone since rstan is no longer linked against.