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

[Rainer M Krug]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > Concerning trapping of the verbose messages, I think it would be a
>> > good idea to do the following:
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>> > 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.
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> 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.

I think that's a good idea - to use the same standard flags that GRASS
is also using (including the --overwrite which would be nice to have
in the writeRAST6 by the way).
I will keep that approach in mind for other commands interfacing to GRASS.

Rainer


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