separate Google Group for rstanarm?

[Bob Carpenter]

I suggest we create a separate Google group for rstanarm.
And maybe one per interface just for install issues. Or make
people report install issues as actual issues we can follow and
close.

Then we can keep stan-users for modeling issues and issue reports.

- Bob

[Daniel Lee]

+1

- Bob


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[Ben Goodrich]

On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 4:57:06 PM UTC-5, Bob Carpenter wrote:

I suggest we create a separate Google group for rstanarm.

I like your second suggestion better.
 

And maybe one per interface just for install issues.  Or make
people report install issues as actual issues we can follow and
close.

It would be good to have something where it is easy for people to look at past posts relating to their topic. The Google search box is not great for this because it is hard to know what to search for. But I don't know if forcing people to file GitHub issues is the answer because we rarely get a valid bug report about installation these days.
 

Then we can keep stan-users for modeling issues and issue reports.

That is why I think the rstanarm questions should be on stan-users. The questions themselves might be specific to rstanarm but the answers are often about modeling. For example, the answer to the question "How do I do bounded uniform priors in rstanarm?" is "You can't because we think that is a poor way to model it ..." which is something all users of Stan need to hear repeatedly. We haven't been getting a flood of questions about how to install rstanarm or how to call its functions, which is good because that was supposed to be self-evident to anyone who had used R before.

Ben