On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Agustin Lobo <alobolistas@gmail.com> wrote:

There were several discussions about this topic in the past, so you could
google for more details. But essentially:


> Is it necessary to start R from within the GRASS console to use
> spgrass6 under linux?
>

No.


> My understanding was that initGRASS() would let you set the grass
> environment
> not having GRASS actually running.
>

Yes. But according to experiences from some users (and advice from Roger
Bivand), you should start R in grass when you want to use an existing
location, and use initGRASS() when creating a "throw away" location to use
grass commands for data in R.
But from my experience under Linux, initGRASS() also works well for existing
locations, althou=gh there is tha rist of thrashing your .gisrc file.

Hope this helps,

Rainer


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