merge function

merge or split stars object

merge attributes into a dimension, or split a dimension over attributes

## S3 method for class 'stars'
split(x, f = length(dim(x)), drop = TRUE, ...)

## S3 method for class 'stars'
merge(x, y, ..., name = "attributes")

Arguments

• x: object of class stars
• f: the name or index of the dimension to split; by default the last dimension
• drop: ignored
• ...: if defined, the first unnamed argument is used for dimension values, if not defined, attribute names are used for dimension values
• y: needs to be missing
• name: name for the new dimension

Returns

merge merges attributes of a stars object into a new dimension; split splits a dimension over attributes

Details

split.stars works on the first attribute, and will give an error when more than one attribute is present