On 28/02/2008, Roger Bivand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Hamish wrote: > > > Roger: > >> Some grass modules don't support --interface-description, but I think > >> not many. > > > > r.mapcalc being the primary concern. Most of the remaining rest are > > interactive things which wouldn't be useful from R. I don't think it's > > a huge effort to do something special for r.mapcalc, chances are you > > might want to do something special with it anyway. > > > > You can use the r.mapcalculator script as a frontend if you need one > > with a working --interface-description. > > > Right, had found that, thanks! > > I'd argue that r.mapcalculator will be good enough. If users need all the > strength of r.mapcalc, they can say system("bash") and do it from the > shell, returning to R by closing the shell. The history file for the > under-shell will not, however, be recorded (at least not in the same > place).
I actually managed to get r.mapcalc working quite nicely without any hassles so far. I agree that this could be excluded from the do_GRASS() or at least get internally a special treatment (r.mapcalc was actually one reason why I used GRASS from R as it was much easier then using internal R mechanisms for that.) Rainer Roger > > > > > > > > Hamish > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > grass-dev mailing list > > grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev > > > > -- > Roger Bivand > Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of > Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, > Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- -- Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Plant Conservation Unit Department of Botany University of Cape Town Rondebosch 7701 South Africa
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