prepare to upload to CRAN

Author: bgoodri

DESCRIPTION

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: rstanarm
 Type: Package
 Title: Bayesian Applied Regression Modeling via Stan
 Version: 2.17.4
-Date: 2018-04-04
+Date: 2018-04-12
 Authors@R: c(person("Jonah", "Gabry", email = "jsg2201@columbia.edu", role = "aut"),
  person("Imad", "Ali", role = "ctb"),
  person("Sam", "Brilleman", role = "ctb"),
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ Authors@R: c(person("Jonah", "Gabry", email = "jsg2201@columbia.edu", role = "au
  person("Brian", "Ripley", role = "cph", 
  comment = "R/stan_aov.R, R/stan_polr.R"),
  person("William", "Venables", role = "cph", comment = "R/stan_polr.R"),
+ person("Paul-Christian", "Burkner", email = "paul.buerkner@gmail.com",
+ role = "cph", comment = "R/misc.R"),
  person("Ben", "Goodrich", email = "benjamin.goodrich@columbia.edu", 
  role = c("cre", "aut")))
 Description: Estimates previously compiled regression models using the 'rstan'

inst/NEWS

@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+Thu April 12 2018 (2.17.4)
+1. Major bug fixes:
+ * stan_jm and stan_mvmer now correctly include the intercept in the longitudinal submodel
+2. New features and arguments:
+ * QR = TRUE no longer ignores autoscale and has new behavior when autoscale = FALSE
+ * posterior_linpred now has a draws argument like for posterior_predict
+ * Dynamic predictions are now supported in posterior_traj
+ * Compatible with loo >= 2.0
+
 Sat February 16 2018 (2.17.3)
 1. Build fixes for Solaris and avoid a test failure