[GRASS-dev] Re: Problem when loading GRASS 6 raster with large integer values into R via r.out.bin

[Hamish]

> > Concerning trapping of the verbose messages, I think it would be a
> > good idea to do the following:
> >
> > 1) add a parameter verbose=TRUE in readRAST6 and writeRAST6 to enable
> > or disable it
Roger:
> I'll try to do this using the existing ignore.stderr= in system(), but
> it may not stop everything.

When possible it should utilize the --quiet and --verbose flags which all
GRASS modules listen for, or set the GRASS_VERBOSE environment variable
to the required level. Blindly throwing all stderr messages to /dev/null
should be a last resort, there may be something important there.


Hamish