[GRASS-stats] Re: spgrass6 and winGRASS 6.4.0 RC5

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Roger Bivand<Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, alexandre villers wrote:
>
>> Dear members,
>>
>> Roger Bivand advised me to post problems on the R / GRASS interface on
>> this list.
>> I was using spgrass6 and R 2.9.2 with win GRASS 6.3.0 without much
>> problems.
>> I downloaded winGRASS 6.4 and tried to run again old script and the
>> initGRASS doesn't work.
>>
>> loc<-initGRASS("C:/GRASS", home=tempdir(), override=T) #intialise GRASS
>> dans un dossier de travail dans tempdir
>> Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
>> Bytes: 0xE9 0x66 0x69 0x6E
>> Error : 1: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
>> Bytes: 0xE9 0x66 0x69 0x6E
>>
>> Erreur dans parseGRASS(cmd) : g.region not parsed
>>
>> Roger advised me this could come from file path problem so I also tried,
>> instead of home=tempdir() home="C:/temp" and
>>
>> loc<-initGRASS("C:/GRASS", home="C:/temp/", override=T) #intialise GRASS
>> dans un dossier de travail dans tempdir
>> Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
>> Bytes: 0xE9 0x66 0x69 0x6E
>> Error : 1: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
>> Bytes: 0xE9 0x66 0x69 0x6E
>>
>> Erreur dans parseGRASS(cmd) : g.region not parsed
>
> Stay with your previous working version of GRASS.
>
> Next time, please include the output of traceback() run immediately after
> the error, and the output of sessionInfo().
>
> My guess is that the error is occurring in the last, unimportant, line of
> initGRASS(), and that the location has been created successfully. What fails
> is attempting to read the XML produced by g.region(.exe)
> --interface-description, which appears to include invalid characters.

Alexandre, please post the output of

g.region(.exe) --interface-description

I tried in Italian and it worked.

> think that the error messages are coming from xmlTreeParse(), but don't know
> without traceback() output. This will likely affect other GRASS modules too.
>
> As I wrote on R-sig-geo, I have tried to reproduce the problem with winGRASS
> 6.4.0 RC5 and R 2.9.2 without success - everything worked for me. If you can
> redirect the output of g.region(.exe) --interface-description to a file
> (with >) at the shell prompt, zip the file, and attach it to me off-list,
> I'll take a look.
>
> The problem still looks locale-related. If GRASS was internationalised
> between RC4 and RC5 with reference to the contents of what

AFAIK French translations weren't touched for (too) long time.

> --interface-description returns, and the contents are malformed, that would
> explain it. If this is the case (with apologies) make sure that your
> computer knows that it is not in a locale using non ACSII signs, or find the
> right locale for GRASS to match the one R is expecting.
>
> Roger

Markus