[GRASS-stats] New package for R-GRASS interface

Roger Bivand Roger.Bivand at nhh.no
Thu Jul 21 08:43:34 PDT 2022


Yes, rgrass works with (recent) GRASS 7. I tested with 7.8.6, and would 
welcome reports with earlier GRASS 7 instances.

Roger

On Thu, 21 Jul 2022, Bernardo Santos wrote:

> Thanks a lot for that, Roger! That is really nice and will be super useful!
> One small question: does the new rgrass package also works to connect to GRASS7, or only with GRASS8 sessions?
> BestBernardo
>    Em quinta-feira, 21 de julho de 2022 17:15:10 GMT+2, Roger Bivand <roger.bivand at nhh.no> escreveu:
>
> Since GRASS 8 has been released (current is 8.2), continuing calling the
> interface package "rgrass7" is misleading. In any case, rgrass7 suggests
> rgdal, which is nearing retirement. So rgrass has been created, and
> reached CRAN today. rgrass7 also works with GRASS 8, but will be archived
> when rgdal retires.
>
> The new rgrass package now uses terra classes for data transfer. There is
> a new vignette showing how to coerce from and to SpatRaster and SpatVector
> to make adaptation easier. A second vignette describes various modes of
> use of the interface package.
>
> Comments and questions are welcome here and as github issues.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roger
>
>

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