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reloo generic

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
tooling

Research direction

The issue names only the reloo API and its brms argument order; begin by locating current reloo callers and method definitions. Confirm whether stanreg and brmsfit methods can be introduced without breaking existing calls, or document an agreed replacement and deprecation plan. Done means the compatibility decision is settled.

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Description

@paul-buerkner I'd like to add a generic for reloo so we can have reloo.stanreg and reloo.brmsfit methods. But I see that currently brms takes the first argument of reloo to be the loo object. So it can't change to a brmsfit method without breaking backwards compatibility, right? If that's the case then maybe we should use a different name than reloo for the generic and new methods and you can deprecate reloo it in brms. What do you think? Definitely open to other ideas.

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R
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