[GRASS-dev] Plan to build Package to use GRASS from R

[Rainer M Krug]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Paul:
>> Flags that are interpreted by the GRASS module option
>> parser and have a common meaning to all modules are prefixed
>> by --. There is a fixed number of these (see lib/gis/parser.c
>> for details). The interpretation of flags with a single - is
>> defined by individual modules when they call G_parser()
>> and the meaning of single - flags is individually dependent
>> on each module.
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> see  http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Module_command_line_parser

Thanks - so I will hardcode them at the moment following that description.

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>> I wonder if the special parser flags should be left out of
>> the --interface-description output.
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> note that --overwrite comes and goes depending of if it is relevant
> to the module.
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> re. the module list of flag from r.buffer --help: the vertical descriptions
> of flags uses the short version (--q), but note that the top USAGE: line
> has the long version. Both ways are listed there on purpose as a hint.
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Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

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