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

[Alexandre Villers]

Good afternoon,

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I was using GRASS 6.4.1 on Windows 7, 
not GRASS 7...
Best regards

Alex


On 19/03/2012 17:26, 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.
>
> 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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