[GRASS-user] Simulation in grass 6

[Rainer M. Krug]

Hi

I am planning to write a spatial simulation model, simulating the spread 
of alien species on a landscape scale by using grass.
My question how I should write the simulation model, i.e. in which 
scripting language. I am using Linux and have quite a bit of experience 
with R, so I thought that R (together with spgrass6) would be a nice 
scripting language to write the simulation and sending the grass 
commands through to grass, because it offers me quite a bit more 
concerning strtucturing on the modelling side then using a normal shell 
script
But the simulation should also run under Windows and I don't have any 
experience with grass and R under windows.

I have the following questions:

1) Does R and grasswork together (via spgrass6) under windows as they do 
under Linux?

2) Is there anything I have to look at when writing a simulation model
under Linux which should also run under Windows?

3) Is any other scripting language more suitable for what I want to 
achieve (I have no experience with C / C++, but quite a bit with Delphi. 
I have never used the likes of perl et al. and bash scrips seem a bit 
awkward to me for bigger projects.)?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Rainer


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