DoodleBUGS: Generate Stan and Turing Code

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Suggestion by @yebai on Slack:

DoobleBUGS, in principle, can also generate Stan code. I know Andrew Gelman also wanted it for Stan.

ref: https://sites.stat.columbia.edu/gelman/research/published/Bayesian_software_review-8.pdf

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There have been a few attempts at things like this for stan over the last few years that I have seen on the stan forum. In terms of the graph I can't quite remember where the post is but will look. In terms of running the models in a GUI there is the stan playground. It would be great to have a standard front end i.e this that outputs to different backends as proposed here.

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Chat about model to DAG (not interactive): https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/tool-to-auto-generate-model-diagrams/7361/4
Some kind of support for this for rstan (never seen before): https://search.r-project.org/CRAN/refmans/bayesvl/html/stan.html
Note what I was thinking of but another DAG to stan project: https://macartan.github.io/causalmodels/updating-models-with-stan.html
This is what I was think of: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/11/19/drawing-maps-of-model-space-with-modular-stan/

I was very excited about this at the time and very sad when it died out.

Stan play ground: https://stan-playground.flatironinstitute.org

This is working in the browser which I am not sure is in scope (?) for you but is very cool. Not really been able to use it for anything yet.