<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpd604ae69yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div><div>Hi Vero;</div><div>I got the same error a while back and I ended up finding a workaround by copying <span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">all of the .dll files from C:\OSGeo4W64\bin to <span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">C:\OSGeo4W64\apps\grass\grass-7.4.1\bin. I have grass installed on my C drive but follow the path to your installation path bin. It appears that the .dlls are different or incompatible. </span></span></span></span></div><div><br></div><div><span><br></span><br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydpd604ae69signature"><div>Felipe D. Carrillo</div><div>Supervisory Fishery Biologist</div><div>Department of the Interior</div><div>US Fish & Wildlife Service</div><div>California, USA</div><div><a href="http://www.fws.gov/redbluff/rbdd_jsmp.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.fws.gov/redbluff/rbdd_jsmp.html</a><br></div></div></div>
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On Saturday, October 27, 2018, 7:42:00 AM PDT, Veronica Andreo <veroandreo@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv5189425438"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi <br></div><div><br></div><div>I taught a GRASS course last week and all students got the same error when trying to init GRASS from R or Rstudio (in all cases grass was installed through OSGeo4W installer). <br></div><div><br></div><div>Here´s the command we used (paths must be adapted accordingly):</div><div><br></div><div>initGRASS(gisBase = "C:/OSGeo4W64/apps/grass/grass-7.4.2RC2", <br> gisDbase = "C:/Users/RETA/Documents/grassdata", <br> location = "nc_spm_08_grass7", <br> mapset = "user1", <br> SG = "elevation")</div><div><br></div><div>The pop-up error is a missing iconv.dll. See screenshot attached. I believe all locales were in Spanish as well as the laptop I am testing now. After many attempts to try to close the pop-up error, we got the following in the Rstudio console:<br></div><div><br></div><div><pre class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCGSB" id="yiv5189425438gmail-rstudio_console_output" style="outline:currentcolor none medium;border:medium none;margin:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant">Error in if (!compatible) { : argument is of length zero
</span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant">In addition: </span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant">Warning messages:
</span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant">1: </span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant">In system(paste("g.dirseps.exe -g", shQuote(Sys.getenv("GISRC"))), :
</span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant"> </span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant"> running command 'g.dirseps.exe -g "junk"' had status 309
</span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant">2: </span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant">In system(paste("g.dirseps.exe -g", shQuote(gisDbase)), intern = TRUE) :
</span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant"> </span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant"> running command 'g.dirseps.exe -g "C:/Users/RETA/Documents/grassdata"' had status 309
</span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant">3: </span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant">In dir.create(loc_path) :
</span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant"> </span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant"> cannot create dir 'NA\nc_spm_08_grass7', reason 'No such file or directory'
</span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant">4: </span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant">In dir.create(paste(loc_path, "PERMANENT", sep = "/")) :
</span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant"> </span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant"> cannot create dir 'NA\nc_spm_08_grass7\PERMANENT', reason 'No such file or directory'
</span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant">5: </span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant">In dir.create(paste(loc_path, mapset, sep = "/")) :
</span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant"> </span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant"> cannot create dir 'NA\nc_spm_08_grass7\user1', reason 'No such file or directory'
</span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant">6: </span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant">In system(paste("g.version", get("addEXE", envir = .GRASS_CACHE), :
</span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant"> </span><span class="yiv5189425438gmail-GNKRCKGCASB yiv5189425438gmail-ace_constant"> running command 'g.version.exe' had status 309<br><br></span></span></span></font></pre></div><div>Is this grass or windows problem? I did not get this error in this same laptop a month ago when Roger fixed some other problems. Seems that something changed meanwhile.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Vero<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>grass-stats mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:grass-stats@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:grass-stats@lists.osgeo.org">grass-stats@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-stats" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-stats</a></div>
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