Hello Milton, thanks for that beautiful R-hack ! Since I am working on a minimal "bread and butter" machine I went for Moritz' solution but it's a neat idea to use R for the task.
Eventually, GIS-hacking should become part of the Olympics and you all should try to get medals :-) Cheers, Peter -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 13:40:35 -0300 > Von: "Milton Cezar Ribeiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: "Moritz Lennert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], grass-user@lists.osgeo.org > Betreff: Re: [GRASS-user] v.dissolve bugfeature / workaround needed > Hi Peter, > > Following Morit´z suggestion, how about you use R on this task? > > > #The code below is to you read your dbf file > #so remove the # and include your full path/file name > #require(foreign) > #my.dbf<-read.dbf("c:/temp/myfile.dbf") # > > > #below we simulate a data.frame (it is a table) > > my.dbf<-data.frame(cbind(var1=c("GRASS001","GRASS002","GRASS003"))) > my.dbf > > #below you have a code to "deparse" your variable of interest > > my.dbf$var2_char<-substr(my.dbf$var1,6,999) > my.dbf > > my.dbf$var2_int <-as.numeric(as.character(my.dbf$var2_char)) > my.dbf > > > > Cheers, > > > > miltinho > > brazil > > > > > 2008/8/6, Moritz Lennert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On 06/08/08 15:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> Hello list, > >> > >> i am using GRASS 6.4svn to merge adjacent poylgons into larger units. > >> The merging is controlled by a column of type CHAR: > >> > >> v.dissolve input=counties output=counties_merged_fips1 column=FIPS_1 > >> > >> > >> results in dbmi: Protocol error ERROR: Cannot open select cursor: > >> SELECT cat, FIPS_1 FROM counties ORDER BY FIPS_1 ERROR: Unable to > >> open vector map <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on topology > >> level 2 WARNING: Table <counties_fips1_22157> linked to vector map > >> <counties_fips1_22157> does not exist ERROR: Vector map > >> <counties_fips1> not found in the current mapset > >> > >> v.dissolve works correctly when applied to an INT column. > >> > >> I assume this is a bugfeature - > >> > > > > v.dissolve is only a frontend script to v.reclass which needs ints... > > > > string-based dissolving would be > >> great to have at some point. > >> > > > > +1 > > > > > >> For now, does anybody have a (DBdriver-)SQL-hack to transmogrify > >> strings like "GRASS001", "GRASS002", "GRASS003" into the Integers > >> 1,2,3 ? (aka getting rid of the "GRASS"-part of the string) ? > >> > > > > If you absolutely need to work with the dbf-driver, then I guess you > best > > bet would be to open the dbf file in OpenOffice Calc and use its > functions. > > > > If you can switch over to SQLite, I think the ltrim function should do > what > > you need. > > > > More full-fledged SQL-backends obviously have more sophisticated > functions. > > > > Moritz > > _______________________________________________ > > grass-user mailing list > > grass-user@lists.osgeo.org > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user > > -- Dr. Peter Löwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Psssst! Schon das coole Video vom GMX MultiMessenger gesehen? Der Eine für Alle: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/messenger03 _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user