[GRASS-user] GISBASE on MacOSX

[Johannes Radinger]

Hi,

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> Datum: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:48:51 -0600
> Von: Stephen Sefick <sas0025 at auburn.edu>
> An: Johannes Radinger <JRadinger at gmx.at>
> CC: graSS user list <grass-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> Betreff: Re: [GRASS-user] GISBASE on MacOSX

> Try starting up GRASS and look where the database is in the GUI.  Maybe 
> that will work?  I can't test it because I am running Ubuntu.
> FWIW

Thank you Tom: my GISBASE for initGRASS in R is: "/Applications/GRASS-6.5.app/Contents/MacOS" ...

@Stephen: I wasn't looking for GISDBASE (with "D") which is in a different directory than the GISBASE with all its libraries ets. I also got confused when I read this the first time.


> 
> Stephen
> 
> On 02/14/2012 06:00 AM, Johannes Radinger wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Roger Bivand recommend this list to be more suitable for my sort
> > of question the R-sig-geo.
> > I'd like to use R outside a running GRASS session.
> > With the R package 'spgrass6' I can initiate a GRASS session (using
> > the function initGRASS). Therefore I need the path of the GISBASE.
> > I am working on Max OSX and my GRASS 6.5 has been selfcompiled and
> installed via the command console (sudo make install). The programm is
> > now here: "/Applications/GRASS-6.5.app"
> > What is now the correct path to my GISBASE or how can I find this out?
> >
> > Does anyone have experience with that? This refers to that topic:
> >
> http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Working_with_GRASS_without_starting_it_explicitly#GRASS_databases
> > although it is still not clear how to find out where my GISBASE is on my
> Mac?
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Johannes
> >
> > On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Johannes Radinger wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I want to use spgrass6 in an R session outside GRASS on Mac OSX.
> >> Therefore I want to use initGRASS to set some needed environmental
> >> variables etc. initGRASS() needs gisBase as one parameter which is the
> >> direcotry path to the GRASS binaries. What is the standard path on Mac
> >> OS X? My GRASS.app is in / /Applications/GRASS-6.5.app...
> >>
> >> so I tried following two approaches so far without success:
> > Please ask on statgrass or grass-users with reference to:
> >
> >
> http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Working_with_GRASS_without_starting_it_explicitly
> >
> > saying how you installed OSX GRASS. The views that OSX and R or Python
> or
> > other scripting languages have of the file system may well differ a good
> > deal.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> >>> initGRASS("/Applications/GRASS-6.5", home=tempdir())
> >> Fehler in initGRASS("/Applications/GRASS-6.5", home = tempdir()) :
> >>   /Applications/GRASS-6.5 not found
> >>> initGRASS("/Applications/GRASS-6.5.app", home=tempdir())
> >> Fehler in system(paste("g.version", get("addEXE", envir =
> .GRASS_CACHE),  :
> >>   Fehler bei der Ausf"uhrung des Kommandos
> >>
> >> I don't know what is causing the problem in the second approach?
> >> Does anyone know how to use initGRASS on Mac OS X in an R session
> outside GRASS correctly?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Johannes
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