can't initiate Grass with initGRASS()

Roger,

I think your suspicions are correct.  Here is the output from debug after the 
PATH setting if():

Browse[2]> Sys.getenv("PATH")



                                      PATH
"/usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/i386-linux:/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/wdmccoy/bin:/usr/local/grass-6.4.0svn/bin:/usr/local/grass-6.4.0svn/scripts" 
Browse[2]> list.files(Sys.getenv("PATH"))
character(0)
Browse[2]> Sys.getenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH")


                               LD_LIBRARY_PATH
"/usr/lib/R/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/i386/server:/usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/i386:/usr/lib/jvm/java/lib/i386:/usr/java/packages/lib/i386:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/grass-6.4.0svn/lib" 
Browse[2]> list.files(Sys.getenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH"))
character(0)


Since I last used spgrass6 many months ago, I have installed grass64svn along 
with grass63, which was long ago installed as a fedora rpm.  So my PATH looks 
like this:


[wdmccoy at boreas ~]$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/i386-linux:/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/wdmccoy/bin


But my LD_LIBRARY_PATH looks like this:

[wdmccoy at boreas ~]$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH


I.e., there is nothing in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  The reason grass64 works by 
itself (outside of R) is because I have a grass64.conf file in 
/etc/ld.so.conf.d and that .conf file contains:

/usr/local/grass-6.4.0svn/lib


What do you recommend?

Thanks, Bill


On 08/28/2010 05:41 AM, Roger Bivand wrote:

On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, William McCoy wrote:

I am using spgrass6, but I can't seem to initiate a grass session. I
managed to do this correctly months ago, but can't seem to now. Here
is my code and sessionInfo:

Something has happened to your GRASS installation and/or the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. The GRASS binary modules are being
found, but the libraries (shared objects) they call are not. Try to set
debug(initGRASS), then step through looking at what is in environment
variables, etc. After the if () for conditionally setting the PATH, look
at:

Sys.getenv("PATH")
list.files(Sys.getenv("PATH"))

and similarly for LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

Sys.getenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH")
list.files(Sys.getenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH"))

I suspect that the test:

eLDPATH <- Sys.getenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH")
grep(basename(Sys.getenv("GISBASE")), eLDPATH)

is not empty, so the LD_LIBRARY_PATH does not get edited to include the
actual locations of the *.so files.

Have you changed the definitions of these environment variables in a
.bashrc or similar between this working and no longer working? Before
starting R, say:

echo $PATH
echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

to see if that sheds any light on things.

Hope this helps,

Roger

library(spgrass6)

Loading required package: sp
Loading required package: rgdal
Geospatial Data Abstraction Library extensions to R successfully loaded
Loaded GDAL runtime: GDAL 1.7.2, released 2010/04/23
Path to GDAL shared files: /usr/local/share/gdal
Loaded PROJ.4 runtime: Rel. 4.7.1, 23 September 2009
Path to PROJ.4 shared files: (autodetected)
Loading required package: XML
GRASS GIS interface loaded with GRASS version: (GRASS not running)

loc <- initGRASS(gisBase = "/usr/local/grass-6.4.0svn/", home =
tempdir())

g.gisenv: symbol lookup error: g.gisenv: undefined symbol: G__no_gisinit
g.gisenv: symbol lookup error: g.gisenv: undefined symbol: G__no_gisinit
g.gisenv: symbol lookup error: g.gisenv: undefined symbol: G__no_gisinit
g.gisenv: symbol lookup error: g.gisenv: undefined symbol: G__no_gisinit
g.gisenv: symbol lookup error: g.gisenv: undefined symbol: G__no_gisinit
g.region: symbol lookup error: g.region: undefined symbol: G__gisinit
Error in if (file.exists(file) == FALSE) if (!missing(asText) &&
asText == :
argument is of length zero
Error in parseGRASS(cmd) : g.region not parsed

sessionInfo()

R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
i386-redhat-linux-gnu

locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] spgrass6_0.6-19 XML_3.1-1 rgdal_0.6-28 sp_0.9-66

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.11.1 lattice_0.18-8 tools_2.11.1


Any ideas about what I am doing wrong?

Thanks, Bill