is still supported, I/O with JSON is faster
and recommended. See the <a href="json.html#json">chapter on JSON</a> for more details.</p>
<p>RDump format can be used to represent values for Stan variables.
This format was introduced in SPLUS and is used in R, JAGS,
and in BUGS (but with a different ordering).</p>
<p>A dump file is structured as a sequence of variable definitions.
Each variable is defined in terms of its dimensionality and its values.
There are three kinds of variable declarations:
- scalars
-