[GRASS-windows] is it possible to use R package spgrass6 to" load" MySQL data into Grass 6.3?

[Moritz Lennert]

On 17/07/08 16:46, Darren Norris wrote:
> apologies for sending twice but first time had wrong subject line!!
>  
> Dear all,
> I need to get data (which define vector polygons, lines and points) from 
> MySQL database into GRASS (my rasters are in GRASS). As the MySQL driver 
> is being worked on (but low priotity) I'm just looking for alternatives 
> and advice.

Your R path seems like it should work, but if GDAL/OGR is compiled with 
MySQL support then v.in.ogr should work.

Don't know which MySQL driver you are speaking about: the GRASS database 
backend driver (which is irrelevant for importing spatial data from 
MySQL) or the GDAL/OGR driver ?

Moritz