[R-sig-Geo] R chrashes when reading vector from GRASS with readVECT6

[Michal Gallay]

Dear R experts,

I am running R 6.2.2 and QGIS 0.8.1 on WinXP, 1.5 GB RAM, 1.8GHZ processor.

When I try to read a vector point dataset from a GRASS mapset
R looks like its working but it goes on for a very long time 
even if the point dataset is small (1400 points).
After hitting ESC to terminate the process, R crashers.

require(spgrass6)
> gmeta6()
gisdbase    D:/GIS_data/GB_data/GRASS 
location    4_Langdale 
mapset      RST_ground_truth 
rows        290 
columns     400 
north       507450 
south       506000 
west        328000 
east        330000 
nsres       5 
ewres       5 
projection  NA 
cv.vect <- readVECT6("cv.points")

However, sometimes after closing R and openning again I managed to read the 
data and sometimes not. It appears to be more or less random behaviour.

Now, I wanted to read a big vector (1 million points). R crashes again. 
There is no problem with readRAST6() even with a big raster.

Would you have any ideas where the problem is?

Thank you for your time and advice.

Best regards

Michal

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Michal Gallay

Postgraduate Research Student
School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology
Queen's University
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland

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