On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Roger Bivand <roger.biv...@nhh.no> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Roger Bivand <roger.biv...@nhh.no>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have a question concerning readRAST6 and the plugin. When I use the
>>>> default (plugin=NULL), I get the error below,
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Well, this does happen. I never knowingly use the plugins for raster or
>>> vector any more, because I have multiple GDAL and GRASS installations,
>>> and
>>> the cross-dependencies take more time to manage than any accruing
>>> benefit.
>>> Use plugin=TRUE to avoid the sanity check.
>>>
>>> If you would like to find the cause, please run debug(readRAST6) first,
>>> then run the command, and print out the values of gg (returned by
>>> gmeta6()),
>>> and fninfo (returned by GDALinfo). The values of gg$n and fninfo[5] are
>>> found to differ, but gg$w and fninfo[4] not. It could be that fninfo[5]
>>> is
>>> set wrongly; in GDALinfo, it is:
>>>
>>> ysign <- sign(gt[6])
>>> offset.y <- ifelse(ysign < 0, gt[4] + ysign * d[1] *
>>> abs(cellsize[2]), gt[4] + abs(cellsize[2]))
>>>
>>> where gt is the vector of values returned by RGDAL_GetGeoTransform from
>>> the
>>> file-specific driver, and d[1] is the number of rows.
>>>
>>> If you in addition say debug(GDALinfo), and print the values of gt, we
>>> could see whether the values seem sane for this driver. They "must" be
>>> anyway for reading with plugin=TRUE to work, because they set up the
>>> GridTopology for the object read in; checking with gdalinfo of the same
>>> raster would also be helpful.
>>>
>>> Short answer, use plugin=TRUE if you want to use it.
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks Roger - I'll probably do that.
>>
>>
>> But what are the advantages / disadvantages of using the plugin or not?
>>
>
>
> Because the data are read directly from the GRASS GISDBASE file into R
> memory without the writing and reading of an intermediary GTiff/shapefile,
> the plugin may be faster. From earlier discussions on the grass-stats list,
> this is the usual justification.
>
Makes sense. Would like to have it as fast as possible as it is part of a
simulation, but it is fine then.
Thanks,
Rainer
>
> Roger
>
>
>
>> Rainer
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>>
>>> Roger
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> x <- readRAST6("MASK")
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> raster map/current region mismatch detected in components:
>>>> cols rows origin.northing origin.easting
>>>> TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE
>>>> set plugin=TRUE to override; continuing with plugin=FALSE
>>>>
>>>> I am absolutely sure, that the raster map:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> execGRASS("r.info", parameters=list(map="MASK"))
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>>> | Layer: MASK Date: Fri Jan 29 13:19:03
>>>> 2010
>>>> |
>>>> | Mapset: HLsim_Rtmpe2v0qc Login of Creator: rkrug
>>>> |
>>>> | Location: grass
>>>> |
>>>> | DataBase: /home/rkrug/Documents/Projects/HakeaLandscape/trunc/
>>>> |
>>>> | Title: Reclass of region in HLsim_Rtmpe2v0qc ( MASK )
>>>> |
>>>> | Timestamp: none
>>>> |
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
>>>> |
>>>> |
>>>> | Type of Map: reclass Number of Categories: 1
>>>> |
>>>> | Data Type: CELL
>>>> |
>>>> | Rows: 520
>>>> |
>>>> | Columns: 192
>>>> |
>>>> | Total Cells: 99840
>>>> |
>>>> | Projection: UTM (zone -34)
>>>> |
>>>> | N: 6247000 S: 6195000 Res: 100
>>>> |
>>>> | E: 270200 W: 251000 Res: 100
>>>> |
>>>> | Range of data: min = 1 max = 1
>>>> |
>>>> |
>>>> |
>>>> | Data Source:
>>>> |
>>>> | Reclassified map based on:
>>>> |
>>>> | Map [region] in mapset [HLsim_Rtmpe2v0qc]
>>>> |
>>>> |
>>>> |
>>>> | Data Description:
>>>> |
>>>> | generated by r.reclass
>>>> |
>>>> |
>>>> |
>>>> |
>>>> |
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
>>>> | Reclassification of [region] in mapset [HLsim_Rtmpe2v0qc]
>>>> |
>>>> |
>>>> |
>>>> | Category Original categories
>>>> |
>>>> |
>>>> |
>>>> | 1 1
>>>> |
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>>>
>>>> execGRASS("g.region", flags="p")
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> projection: 1 (UTM)
>>>> zone: -34
>>>> datum: wgs84
>>>> ellipsoid: wgs84
>>>> north: 6247000
>>>> south: 6195000
>>>> west: 251000
>>>> east: 270200
>>>> nsres: 100
>>>>
>>>> gdal info:
>>>>
>>>> library(rgdal)
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Loading required package: sp
>>>> Geospatial Data Abstraction Library extensions to R successfully loaded
>>>> Loaded GDAL runtime: GDAL 1.6.3, released 2009/11/19
>>>> Path to GDAL shared files: /usr/share/gdal16
>>>> Loaded PROJ.4 runtime: Rel. 4.7.1, 23 September 2009
>>>> Path to PROJ.4 shared files: (autodetected)
>>>>
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
>>>> i486-pc-linux-gnu
>>>>
>>>> locale:
>>>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>> [3] LC_TIME=en_ZA.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_ZA.UTF-8
>>>> [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_ZA.UTF-8
>>>> [7] LC_PAPER=en_ZA.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
>>>> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
>>>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_ZA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>>>
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>>>
>>>> other attached packages:
>>>> [1] multicore_0.1-3 RSQLite_0.8-0 DBI_0.2-5 spgrass6_0.6-12
>>>> [5] XML_2.6-0 maptools_0.7-29 lattice_0.18-3 foreign_0.8-38
>>>> [9] simecol_0.6-9 deSolve_1.6 rgdal_0.6-24 sp_0.9-52
>>>>
>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>> [1] grid_2.10.1 tools_2.10.1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Rainer
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>> 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: roger.biv...@nhh.no
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
> --
> 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: roger.biv...@nhh.no
>
>
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