[GRASS-stats] Towards spgrass7

[Roger Bivand]

Dear Markus,

Good to hear you are well! Great that RC1 is ready!

Yes, I guess it would be sensible to condition on version in these cases, 
so first add comments for hard-coded flags and options (there are also 
some changes in type, I think). In addition, bin_out_win in parseGRASS() 
needs updating and/or conditioning on version, and the logic for handling 
where Python scripts are found should be looked at.

You do not (yet) have commit rights on: 
https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/rspatial/ where spgrass6 lives.

Two alignments: should GRASS5 support (GRASS packages) be dropped (yes)?
Should spgrass6 be forked into (new) spgrass which supports >= 7, and 
leave spgrass6 for 6.*? If fork, is SVN on R-Forge OK?

Best wishes,

Roger

On Thu, 15 Jan 2015, Markus Neteler wrote:

> Dear Roger,
>
> I hope you are well (like me).
>
> To you have any plans to update spgrass6 to spgrass7? While the former
> works ok with raster maps, a few minor tweaks are needed to read in
> vector maps.
> The reason is the parameter standardization effort done in the past
> months. We renamed obscure parameters to a set of reasonable standard
> names:
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures#Optionschanges
>
> It is essentially a small search/replace job I can help with.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Best,
> Markus
>
> PS: It would also solve http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1444
>

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