[GRASS-user] How to detect if GRASS is running in R background

[Veronica Andreo]

Hi Felipe

what about gmeta()? If grass is running, it gives you location and region
metadata, otherwise it rises an error...

Or you could also ask in the grass-stats list:
https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-stats

HTH,
Vero

El mié., 10 oct. 2018 a las 17:09, Felipe Carrillo (<
mazatlanmexico at yahoo.com>) escribió:

> Hi;
> I usually start GRASS from my RConsole as so:
>
> #perform initial GRASS setup
> initGRASS("C:\\OSGeo4W64\\apps\\grass\\grass-7.4.1", home = getwd(),
> gisDbase = "GRASS_TEMP", mapset = "PERMANENT", override = TRUE)
>
> and I never had problems until last week. I was getting errors and
> couldn't figure out why. Later on I came to find out that my GRASS instance
> was closed.
> I don't know why GRASS unexpectedly close without notification. With that
> said, is there a way in R to check if GRASS is still running in the
> background?
> I can probably manually check my task manager to see if there is a process
> running but in a more elegant way I want to do it from R.
>
>
> Felipe D. Carrillo
> Supervisory Fishery Biologist
> Department of the Interior
> US Fish & Wildlife Service
> California, USA
> http://www.fws.gov/redbluff/rbdd_jsmp.html
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