Simply, don't. execGRASS() is for executing single GRASS commands, not a drop-in replacement for bash.
Try something like creating the point in R with the correct projection, and write that vector object to your mapset: library(sp) library(rgrass7) pt <- SpatialPointsDataFrame(matrix(c(636645, 218835), ncol=2), proj4string=CRS(paste(execGRASS("g.proj", flags="j", intern=TRUE), collapse=" ")), data=data.frame(x=1)) writeVECT(pt, "outlet") You could create a temporary text file to read in: tf <- tempfile() writeLines("636645, 218835", tf) execGRASS("v.in.ascii", input=tf, output="outlet1", separator=",", flags="n") which is closer to your script but less natural. Yes, grass-stats is a more appropriate list. Roger ----- Roger Bivand NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/rgrass7-syntax-for-passing-a-command-tp5263330p5263427.html Sent from the Grass - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user