7.7 stars

  • For the classic GIS view of raster layers, terra package

Capabilities of stars include

  • allows for representing dynamic (time varying) raster stacks
  • aims at being scalable, also beyond local disk size
  • provides a strong integration of raster functions in the GDAL library
  • handles, in addition to regular grids, rotated, sheared, rectilinear, and curvilinear rasters
  • provides a tight integration with package sf
  • handles array data with non-raster spatial dimensions, the vector data cubes
  • follows the tidyverse design principles