[GRASS-stats] Speedup of readVECT6() with plugin

[Markus Neteler]

Dear Roger,

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Markus Neteler wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sat, 31 May 2008, Markus Neteler wrote:
>>>>>>>> I have to read in Lidar data from GRASS, so speed matters. I have
>>>>>>>> modified the readVECT6() function to not export to SHAPE but
>>>>>>>> read in directly via GRASS-GDAL/OGR plugin:
...
>> thanks for the high speed rewrite of the interface. Downloaded and
>> installed
>> successfully (I see the new message
>> "GRASS GIS interface loaded with GRASS version: 6.4.svn"
>> ).
>>
>>> or a variant that works. The vector version looks OK,
>>

> Markus,
>
> For now, the plugin= argument defaults to FALSE. If NULL, it will
> autodetect, if TRUE, it will try to use the plugin or fail. To avoid
> breaking things for users with a plugin but scripts that might break, I set
> plugin=FALSE for now. Once we have some experience, I'll increment the
> version number from 0.5-* to 0.6-1, and set plugin=NULL by default.
>

I have partially reinstalled R here. Should I continue to use the CVS
version for this improvement? I feel that things won't be tested widely
unless the code isn't easily available (i.e. CRAN).

Best wishes
Markus