character limit in translating to stan with ulam()?

[lorenze3]

character limit in translating to stan with ulam()?

[rmcelreath]

Interesting bug.

To workaround, use multiple symbols:

big_model <- [stuff]
big_model2 <- big_model + [more stuff]

[lorenze3]

Oops -- I've now realized this seems to be about the number of terms in the assignment and not character length.

but it seems to be possible to work around it by breaking the assignment into two formulae --

alist(
    big_model <- <20 terms like b_varname * varname >,
    big_model<- big_model[i] + <remaining terms like b_varname *varname>

)

although I'm not 100% sure that this code (which does compile and run) results in the same sampling as not having it broken into two pieces

[lorenze3]

Thanks for the response! And, dang it, I shoulda thought of that.