[GRASS-user] Trouble calling R from GRASS on Mac

[Thomas Adams]

Hi Nicklas!

Thank you so much for the suggestions… I had been doing all my work on
Ubuntu, but I'm using my Mac for the time being, so this is very helpful
because of my GRASS shell scripts, combining R, and Perl…

Best,
Tom

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 3:39 AM Nicklas Larsson <n_larsson at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Tom,
>
> UPDATE:
> while the procedure described before works, it skips some good to have
> settings of GRASS environment (set with Grass.sh startup script), therefore:
>
> replace all instances of
> "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/bin/grass78"
> with
> "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/MacOS/Grass.sh"
>
> and we're good to go.
>
> N.
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> On Monday, 17 January 2022, 09:18:58 CET, Nicklas Larsson <
> n_larsson at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Tom,
>
>
> There is a limitation presently in the GRASS-X.X.app startup script, i.e.
> forcing the user into a bash session and resetting of PATH. I hope to fix
> this in future releases. However, that doesn't place us in a helpless
> situation.
>
> Assuming you start GRASS in Finder: (1) start GRASS session, (2) in
> Terminal enter
> "open /Applications/R.app" for R GUI version or
> "/usr/local/bin/R" for R command line version.
>
> If you wish to stay in zsh, then start GRASS in Terminal with:
> "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/bin/grass78". Then open R
> in the same way as above
>
> If the second alternative is the more appealing, you may wish to simplify
> by making a GRASS link to /usr/local/bin:
> "sudo ln -s /Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/bin/grass78
> /usr/local/bin/ grass78".
> Assuming you have /usr/local/bin/ in your path, then entering "grass78"
> alternatively "grass78 --gui" in Terminal is all you need to start GRASS.
>
> Best,
> Nicklas
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> On Monday, 17 January 2022, 02:29:59 CET, Veronica Andreo <
> veroandreo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Any Mac user that can assist here, please?
>
> Thomas, maybe you can also subscribe and write to grass-stats mailing
> list: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-stats
>
> Sorry for not being of much help with this
> Best
> Vero
>
> El dom, 16 ene 2022 a las 2:28, Thomas Adams (<tea3rd at gmail.com>)
> escribió:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I have R (latest) and GRASS 7.8.6 installed on my Mac. Both R and GRASS
> launch fine from the GUIs. I can launch R from the default Mac zsh terminal
> window, but R will not launch from the GRASS bash shell… however, at a zsh
> prompt, I can startup bash, and R launches as expected fmo the bash prompt.
> >
> > So, how do I get the settings right to be able to launch R from the
> GRASS bash terminal — this has never been a problem for me with my Ubuntu
> installations
> >
> > Suggestions are appreciated… thank you.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
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