[R-sig-Geo] Advice on GRASS version for R

[Rainer M Krug]

Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> writes:

> On Wed, 28 Jan 2015, PONS Frederic - CEREMA/DTerMed/DREC/SRILH wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your advice, I send an e-mail to a french grass list.
>
> That is no use. Use grass-stats if you need help with the R-GRASS
> interface, the developers do not read other channels regularly.
>
>>
>> The best solution seems for me to work with future version
>>
>
> Work with forthcoming (soon to be stable) GRASS 7, not with the
> development version.
>
>> But I cannot install spgrass 7 or spgrass on windows 7 in R version 3.1.2 :
>
> So download:
>
> http://download.r-forge.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/latest/spgrass7_0.1-0.zip
>
> and install from local zip file (untried). None of the developers uses
> Windows, so this isn't a priority. Alternatively, install R-tools foe
> Windows and then install the source package.

I am in the process of setting up a virtual machine (Windows 7, R,
GRASS) to test it out (If I manage to deal with windows ...).

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> Roger
>
>>
>>>  install.packages("spgrass7", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
>> Avis : impossible d'accéder à l'index de l'entrepôt
>> http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.1
>> Message d'avis :
>> package 'spgrass7' is not available (for R version 3.1.2)
>>>  RSiteSearch("spgrass7")
>> Une requête de recherche a été soumise à http://search.r-project.org
>> La page de résultats devrait s'ouvrir dans votre navigateur
>>>  install.packages("spgrass", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
>> Avis : impossible d'accéder à l'index de l'entrepôt
>> http://R-Forge.R-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/3.1
>> Message d'avis :
>> package 'spgrass' is not available (for R version 3.1.2)
>>
>> How to do it?
>> Thank you
>> Frédéric
>>
>> Le 27/01/2015 21:48, "> Roger Bivand (par Internet, dépôt
>> r-sig-geo-bounces at r-project.org)" a écrit :
>>>  On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Rich Shepard wrote:
>>>
>>> >  On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, PONS Frederic - CEREMA/DTerMed/DREC/SRILH wrote:
>>> > > >  Do you know what is the future standard of GRASS to script
>>> for the > >  future
>>> > >   version.
>>>
>>>  There is ongoing discussion on the grass-stats list:
>>>
>>>  http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-stats
>>>
>>>  The GRASS 7.0 RC1 is where many parameter names have been changed. The
>>>  changes are quite large, so the current R spgrass6 package will only
>>>  handle GRASS 6 up to GRASS 7.0 beta, while the new spgrass7 (in the
>>>  spgrass project on R-Forge) is being matched to changes in GRASS 7.0 RC*.
>>>  See:
>>>
>>>  install.packages("spgrass7", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
>>>
>>>  This is thanks to input and work by Rainer Krug and Markus Neteler. RC2
>>>  should be out soon too. spgrass6 will shift to maintenance mode only
>>>  shortly after GRASS 7.0 is released, but will stay available.
>>>
>>>  The parameter name changes are on:
>>>
>>>  http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures#Optionschanges
>>>
>>>  We have not checked against GRASS trunk. I think that your adaptation
>>>  might match the regular 7.* series rather than the development trunk, but
>>>  I agree with Rich that it would be worth asking on the GRASS users or
>>>  developers list.
>>>
>>>  Roger
>>>
>>> > >   Ask on the GRASS mail list; you can sign up at
>>> http://grass.osgeo.org/.
>>> > >  If there are syntactic differences I would assume that those
>>> in the >  7.1svn
>>> >  are the future. I've used GRASS (on linux) since 4.0 and current
>>> use >  7.1svn
>>> >  so I've seen many differences over the past couple of decades.
>>> > >  Rich
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>>>
>>
>>

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