Currently, if I make a typo in *.stan file (forget a trailing semicolon for example), and then run the model in R, it just silently quits without showing any error messages:
library(rstan)
fit <- stan(file="mymodel.stan", data=c(1,2))
Is there a way to see compilation errors for my Stan model? Something like
Semicolon missing on line 13
This answer should not be necessary for much longer into the future, but in the recent past you may need to do
install.packages("rstan", type = "source")
in order to correctly handle the exceptions that are thrown when parsing invalid Stan programs under the Catalina version of the Mac OSX operating system.