stars: Spatiotemporal Arrays, Raster and Vector Data Cubes

Reading, manipulating, writing and plotting spatiotemporal arrays (raster and vector data cubes) in 'R', using 'GDAL' bindings provided by 'sf', and 'NetCDF' bindings by 'ncmeta' and 'RNetCDF'.

Version:	0.7-1
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0), abind, sf (≥ 1.0-19)
Imports:	methods, parallel, classInt (≥ 0.4-1), rlang, units
Suggests:	Cairo, CFtime (≥ 1.7.1), OpenStreetMap, RNetCDF (≥ 1.8-2), clue, covr, cubble (≥ 0.3.0), cubelyr, digest, dplyr (≥ 0.7-0), exactextractr, FNN, future.apply, ggforce, ggplot2, ggthemes, gstat, httr, jsonlite, knitr, lwgeom, maps, mapdata, ncdfCF, ncdfgeom, ncmeta (≥ 0.0.3), pbapply, plm, randomForest, raster, rmarkdown, sp, spacetime, spatstat (≥ 2.0-1), spatstat.geom, starsdata, terra (≥ 1.4-22), testthat, tibble, tidyr, tsibble, viridis, xts, zoo
Published:	2026-02-13
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.stars
Author:	Edzer Pebesma [aut, cre], Michael Sumner [ctb], Etienne Racine [ctb], Adriano Fantini [ctb], David Blodgett [ctb], Krzysztof Dyba [ctb]
Maintainer:	Edzer Pebesma <edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de>
BugReports:	https://github.com/r-spatial/stars/issues/
License:	Apache License version 1.1 | Apache License version 2.0 [expanded from: Apache License]
URL:	https://r-spatial.github.io/stars/, https://github.com/r-spatial/stars/
NeedsCompilation:	no
Additional_repositories:	https://cran.uni-muenster.de/pebesma/
Citation:	stars citation info
Materials:	NEWS
In views:	Spatial, SpatioTemporal
CRAN checks:	stars results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	stars.html , stars.pdf
Vignettes:	1. introduction (source, R code) 2. stars proxy objects (source, R code) 3. stars tidyverse methods (source, R code) 4. stars data model (source, R code) 5. vector-raster conversions, reprojection, warping (source, R code) 6. How raster functions map to stars functions (source, R code) 7. Statistical modelling with stars objects (source) 8. NetCDF Proxy Workflows (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	stars_0.7-1.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: stars_0.7-1.zip, r-release: stars_0.7-1.zip, r-oldrel: stars_0.7-1.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): stars_0.7-1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): stars_0.7-1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): stars_0.7-1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): stars_0.7-1.tgz
Old sources:	stars archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse depends:	alcyon, starsExtra, transfR
Reverse imports:	amadeus, automap, basemaps, bayesEO, caretSDM, chopin, CopernicusMarine, csquares, cubeview, ediblecity, gbm.auto, ggOceanMaps, gstat, itsdm, jpgrid, layer, lidR, mapsapi, medfateland, meteoland, mkde, motif, movegroup, MRG, ncdfgeom, oceanexplorer, pacu, pargasite, prevR, quadkeyr, rdwplus, read.abares, RiskMap, Rsagacmd, rsat, rts2, SDLfilter, sfclust, SimSurvey, starsTileServer, stxplore, tidysdm, tmap, tmap.mapgl, tmaptools, tmapverse, WaterBalanceR, weatherOz
Reverse suggests:	bcmaps, belg, CAST, chooseGCM, CopernicusClimate, copernicusR, cubble, dynamicSDM, gdalcubes, gdalUtilities, geotargets, ggfields, ggspatial, landscapemetrics, leafem, lidaRtRee, link2GI, mapview, mlr3spatial, ncdfCF, nngeo, openeo, paar, palr, qgisprocess, rdwd, rgee, rgrass, rgugik, rlandfire, rstac, sf, sftime, sits, slendr, supercells, ursa
Reverse enhances:	inlabru, sabre

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