[STATSGRASS] sp_0.9-16 source on CRAN

[Rainer M Krug]

Roger Bivand wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> 
>> Hi Roger
>>
>> first of all thanks a lot for your prompt reply. I tried it with two 
>> other raster layers, and one worked.
>>
>> I played around, and the problem seems top be the length of the output 
>> variable:
>>
SNIP
>>
>>
>> So it is a problem in grass itself.
>> I should be able to find a way around, but I should file a bug report.
> 
> Yes, I should have remembered that something like it did come up before. 
> I can see email traffic from July this year, thread here:
> 
> http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/statsgrass/2007-July/000619.html
> 
> So it is fixed in CVS for 6.3 and in CVS for 6.2.3.

Thanks a lot for all your help - I'll work around the problem .
And it is really MUCH faster now.

Rainer


> 
> Roger
> 
>>
>> Thanks a million,
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Roger Bivand wrote:
>>>  On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Rainer M. Krug wrote:
>>>
>>> >  Hi
>>> > >  I just upgraded to the new version, and I get an error message 
>>> when >  importing an existing raster. The output is below.
>>>
>>>  This is not related to the sp update. Please do debug(readRAST6) and
>>>  re-run, stepping through until you pass the the setting of the command
>>>  string for r.out.bin. Please then print the cmd variable to screen and 
>>
>> debug: tull <- ifelse(.Platform$OS.type == "windows", system(cmd), 
>> system(cmd,
>>    ignore.stderr = ignore.stderr))
>> Browse[1]> cmd
>> [1] "r.out.bin -b input=Hakea_seeds_2007 
>> output=/home/rkrug/Documents/Projects/AlienSpread/R/../grass/simulation/.tmp/rkrug-linux/Hakea_seeds_2007 
>> null=-1"
>> Browse[1]>
>>
>>
>>>  copy&paste it. It should have a -b flag. Please also give the output of
>>>  sessionInfo() for your system, and the output of system("g.version") 
>>> too.
>>
>>>  sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03)
>> i686-pc-linux-gnu
>>
>> locale:
>> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C 
>>
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] gstat_0.9-40    spgrass6_0.4-3  maptools_0.6-17 rgdal_0.5-15
>> [5] sp_0.9-16       foreign_0.8-23
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] grid_2.6.0     lattice_0.16-5
>>
>>
>>>  system("g.version")
>> GRASS 6.2.2 (2007)
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>  The *.wld file got put in the correct place, so the *.hdr ought to have
>>>  been there too.
>>>
>>>  If you do debug(readBinGrid), you'll see where it fails now, about 4 
>>> lines
>>>  in. You could also do list.files(dirname(fname)) just before it 
>>> fails in
>>>  readBinGrid(), to check whether there ia anything else odd going on. 
>>> Have
>>>  you checked to see whether it has been written anywhere else?
>>>
>>>  Roger
>>>
>>> > > > >   readRAST6("Hakea_seeds_2007")
>>> >  Creating BIL support files ...
>>> >  Header File = ld
>>> >  World File = >  
>>> /home/rkrug/Documents/Projects/AlienSpread/R/../grass/simulation/.tmp/rkrug-linux/Hakea_seeds_2007.wld 
>>> > >  Exporting Raster as double values(bytes=8)
>>> >  Using the Current Region settings ...
>>> >  north=6247000.000000
>>> >  south=6195000.000000
>>> >  east=270200.000000
>>> >  west=251000.000000
>>> >  r=520
>>> >  c=192
>>> > >  Percent complete:
>>> >  r.out.bin complete.
>>> >  Error in readBinGrid(rtmpfl11, colname = vname[i], proj4string = 
>>> p4, >  integer = to_int) :
>>> >  no such file: >  
>>> /home/rkrug/Documents/Projects/AlienSpread/R/../grass/simulation/.tmp/rkrug-linux/Hakea_seeds_2007.hdr 
>>> > > > > >  The contents of the folder are as follow:
>>> > >  
>>> (grass):~/Documents/Projects/AlienSpread/grass/simulation/.tmp/rkrug-linux 
>>> > > >   ll Hakea*
>>> >  -rw-r--r-- 1 rkrug users 798720 2007-10-16 11:10 Hakea_seeds_2007
>>> >  -rw-r--r-- 1 rkrug users     60 2007-10-16 11:10 Hakea_seeds_2007.wld
>>> >  -rw-r--r-- 1 rkrug users 798720 2007-10-16 10:52 >  
>>> Hakea_seedsDispersed_2007
>>> >  -rw-r--r-- 1 rkrug users     60 2007-10-16 10:52 >  
>>> Hakea_seedsDispersed_2007.wld
>>> >  [Raster MASK present]
>>> >  GRASS 6.2.2 >  
>>> (grass):~/Documents/Projects/AlienSpread/grass/simulation/.tmp/rkrug-linux 
>>> > > > > >  Is there something wrong in my paths or os there a bug?
>>> > >  Thanks a lot,
>>> > > >  Rainer
>>> > > >  Roger Bivand wrote:
>>> > >  A new version of the foundation sp package is reaching CRAN 
>>> mirrors, > >  and
>>> > >   Windows and OSX binaries should follow within a day or so. 
>>> There is a
>>> > >   significant change in how SpatialGrid objects are created, 
>>> which we > >  hope
>>> > >   will not affect users negatively, and which is giving a two 
>>> orders of
>>> > >   magnitude speedup for reading larger rasters (single band 900 
>>> by > >  3600 down
>>> > >   from 12 minutes to 6 seconds on an older 1.5GHz machine).
>>> > > > >   If anyone sees any negative impacts, please contact the 
>>> authors
>>> > >   immediately directly.
>>> > > > >   Roger
>>> > > >
>>>
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