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I am using the grass (6.4.3!) function v.rast.stats to calculate the mean value of rast values over polygons.

The tool is somewhat slow and I actually only need the mean value. Is there any possibility/trick to reduce the calculation to the mean value (just like in grass 7.0)?

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    Any change to update to GRASS GIS 7? We released the stable 7 more than a year ago, after years of development... it is worth it! We have done major effort to make it faster, see trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.0.0-News
    – markusN
    Feb 6, 2016 at 9:38
  • Thanks @markusN! I'm sure it's worth it...the problem is the script is really long and I fear it would be some effort to rewrite it to GRASS 7.0. But maybe it's really worth it!
    – countryman
    Feb 6, 2016 at 17:04
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    We have documented all changes, so it may be a reasonably small job for you: trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/… (and further down on that page). In case of doubts, just ask :)
    – markusN
    Feb 7, 2016 at 14:37
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    Ah, cool!!!!! I didn't know that this list exists! Then it's really nice and easy! Thanks a lot for your help!!! :-)
    – countryman
    Feb 7, 2016 at 18:20

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From the doc, I don't think it's possible.

However, if you are free to use QGIS, you could give a try to the LecoS plugin which allows you to choose the metric you want to compute (contrary to the native zonal statistics plugin).

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Okay, when inspecting the source code I found out that GRASS 6.4.3's v.rast.stats grasps the output from r.univar with the bash command cut -d | -f.

As r.univar itself is a compiled script already and all statistics are calculated anyway, there is few possibility to get the script faster as far as I see things. The only way is to reduce the number of columns added to the attribute table in v.rats.stats, but with respect to time this will make only a small difference.

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Okay, maybe the simplest option would just be to update to GRASS 7.0 with the help of the list mentioned by @markusN:

https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.0.0-News#Optionchanges:flagsandparametersharmonized

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