[GRASS-stats] Re: GRASS commands (fwd)

Good evening,

Thank you for the message. I had already tried this but then got the error message:

execGRASS("v.mkgrid", flags="overwrite", parameters=list(map="grilleTest", grid=paste(as.integer(100), as.integer(100), sep=","), box=paste(as.integer(5000),",",as.integer(5000),sep=""), position="region")) #cr?er une grille de box1 m?tres sur box2 m?tres sur la r?gion   !!! PB WITH the double argument required for box and grid).
Erreur dans doGRASS(cmd, flags = flags, parameters = parameters) :
 Parameter <grid> does not have integer value

Does this make sense to you ? v.mkgrid is asking for an integer but the paste() has turned integer into character... and list of the 2 integers is also rejected because of the "multiple = NO" argument...

I'm afraid I can't go further...

Best regards

Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Neteler <neteler at cealp.it>
To: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:22:49 +0200
Subject: Re: [GRASS-stats] Re: [R-sig-Geo] GRASS commands (fwd)

2009/9/1 Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no>:

Is this a bug in the interface description of v.mkgrid? It needs
grid=rows,columns but sets multiple=NO, so wxpython fails (needing two
values but getting one, but only providing an integer entry box).

It needs two values which are treated as one string, so it is correct.
(E.g. r.series accepts multiple input maps which are separate tokens which
required multiple=YES).

...

grid=c(as.integer(100),as.integer(100)), box=c(5000, 5000),
position="region"))
returns
Erreur dans doGRASS(cmd, flags = flags, parameters = parameters) :
  Parameter <grid> has multiple values

How do I specify the two values when multiple is not allowed. I did not
get it....

You used

c(as.integer(100),as.integer(100))

[1] 100 100

c(5000, 5000)

[1] 5000 5000

which leads to space separated values. But we want

paste(as.integer(100), as.integer(100), sep=",")

[1] "100,100"

Consider the statsgrass list for use of the interface between R and

GRASS,

in this case there is an interaction between a possible bug in

v.mkgrid and

the parsing of its parameters.

Since v.mkgrid does declare that grid does *not* take multiple

values, the

(current) logic of doGRASS() is defeated, as it checks that the multiple
attribute if the GRASS parameter is not "NO", see

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/vector/v.mkgrid/main.c#L74

The discrepancy between the code and the documentation is obvious.

There is no real discrepancy...
Hope above comments clarify it.

If not, we would need to see some debug output of doGRASS()...

Markus