Hello,

I have a large number of raster objects in memory, with names RH100, RH101, RH102, etc. (myobjects <- ls(pattern='^RH')). These rasters are sections of a continuous map, and I would like to combine them using the RasterObject merge tool in package 'raster.'

Merge expects an input list of raster objects (outmap<-merge(x, y, ...), where x, y, and ... are raster objects). I can run the command successfully if I type in every raster object that I want to merge, but this is impractical for the large number of objects I'm combining.

I would like to apply merge to a list of object names defined using some kind of wildcard-based list command, but I'm struggling to find the right data types in R.

Is there some way to convert a vector of strings (e.g., as.vector(ls(pattern='^RH'))) to a vector of object names (as.names??) that could be specified as the input to the merge function? What I'd really like to do is something like outmap<-merge(myobjects[1:40]), in order to merge the 40 raster objects, but I recognize that it might not be so simple.

Advance apologies if this is already dealt with on the help list . . . I've gone in circles on wildcard, lapply, and names threads and haven't managed to get anything to work.

Thank you,
Ben

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