Stars: Equivalent of raster::merge?

[kendonB]

Is there an equivalent of raster::merge in stars? It merges disparate windows from a single layer parent raster. Satellite imagery often ships this way, for example.

[edzer]

Currently not as raster, doing the logic in R , but you could try gdal_utils("buildvrt", c("in1.tif", "in2.tif", "in3.tif"), "out.vrt") and then read out.vrt with read_stars.

[adrfantini]

I think there are a few of these useful functions that could be very useful to have. Merge, aggregate, disaggregate, lots of stuff that raster, xarray, gdal and the likes already have. Some of them are already feasible with some coding (but might benefit from a shortcut function), some would be nice to have.

It might be nice to have a list of these nice-to-haves, even though I'm not sure @Edzer thinks they should be in stars (maybe in a separate pkg).

[edzer]

It would be useful to have a table similar to this for comparing operations between stars and raster, and perhaps also GDAL and xarray. Not entirely dissimilar to table 1 in this paper. Maybe also in wiki form in this repo?

[adrfantini]

It would be useful to have a table similar to this for comparing operations between stars and raster, and perhaps also GDAL and xarray. Not entirely dissimilar to table 1 in this paper. Maybe also in wiki form in this repo?

I'm willing to help with this, as I have a lot of experience with raster.
But it's going to take me a while to find the time, unfortunately I have a few deadlines coming up.

[edzer]

Great! You should now have write permission to the repo.

[adrfantini]

The raster manual has a very handy summary of major functions under raster-package; if this is to be primarily a tool for migrating from raster, I might follow the same structure, what do you think?