[STATSGRASS] Re: gmeta6() returns empty string

[Tilmann Steinmetz]

Hi Roger and all,

> 
> Very strange, maybe when Stromboli calms down? 
> 

I'm still covered with tephra but starting to see clearer: I tried executing 
system("g.region -p") in R on a similar machine, running R 2.2.1 on FreeBSD 
5.4 and GRASS6.0.2,2 which _does not_ have similar problems- so the shell 
thing definitely is not a general FreeBSD problem. I am still thankful for 
every hint that may lead to the wanted rogue environment variable or 
whatever.

> > 
> > Is there any way I can go from here without running Grass on, 
> say, Linux?
> 
> Yes, of course. Just run them side-by-side, with GRASS using 
> r.in.gdal and 
> v.in.ogr to read files written from R by writeGDAL() and writeOGR() 
> in 
> rgdal, and r.out.* and v.out.ogr wrt. readOGR() and readGDAL() in 
> rgdal in 

oh great! I wasn't aware of that.

> R. This is almost what the interface does anyway, but because the 
> new 
> stand-alone r.out.gdal is in 6.3, you may need to choose your 
> prefered 6.2 
> raster output format avoiding the older scripted r.out.gdal if you 
> are not 
> running the GDAL GRASS plugin (best not to, IMO). All the interface 
> gives 
> over and above this is handling the intermediate files as temporary 
> files, 
> and adding GRASS categories as factor levels to R factors.
> 
> How did you install R, I assume you built from source? Did you 
> notice any 
> worrying messages?

yes - it was installed from the FreeBSD ports collection (i.e. a source 
install which resolves dependencies, or: is meant to ..) I am now updating - 
lets see what happens.

Tilmann
> > 
> > ----- Originalnachricht -----
> > Von: Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no>
> > Datum: Mittwoch, Februar 28, 2007 14:46
> > Betreff: Re: WG: Re: WG: Re: gmeta6() returns empty string
> > An: Tilmann Steinmetz <tilmann.steinmetz at geo.uni-halle.de>
> > 
> > > Does this usually correlate with activity on Stromboli?
> > 
> > "g.list rast" rather points to rushmore or even better: bugsites :}
> > 
> > 
> 
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> Roger Bivand
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> School of
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