[GRASS-stats] administration rights: unable to use the flag "overwrite" with spgrass6

[Roger Bivand]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Roger Bivand wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Alexandre Villers wrote:
>
>> Dear list,
>> 
>> I am unable to use the "overwrite" flag (e.g. with v.in.ogr) when working 
>> from within R with spgrass6 on a windows 7 x64bits machine (v.in.ogr.exe is 
>> not allowed to delete the file). It is apparently an administrator rights 
>> issue as it works fine when I specifiy gisDbase using a folder on my 
>> external hard disk. The problem is that I am the administrator on this 
>> computer... and that I wouldn't expect any error as the tempdir() function 
>> creates folder in my personal folder in Users where I should have the 
>> rights anyway.
>
> I've now tried to install two GRASS 7 Windows binaries (19/3 and 12/3), and 
> both are broken (no g.region.exe). If you can show me where a working GRASS 7 
> Windows binary can be found, I may look at this.

>From the error logs on Martin's site, the binary has been badly broken 
from 11 March, with a long error log. 10 March looks more or less OK.

Roger

>
> Roger
>
>> 
>> Has anyone experienced such issue with windows 7 ?
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Alex
>> 
>> 
>> R version 2.14.2 (2012-02-29)
>> Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>> 
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United 
>> Kingdom.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
>> 
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> 
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] spgrass6_0.7-9 XML_3.9-4.1    sp_0.9-97
>> 
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] grid_2.14.2    lattice_0.20-0
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