Rafael Schouten

But CategoricalArrays has pretty good ecosystem support, like MLJ etc... @tiemvanderdeure wouldn't a CategoricalArray compatible thing be best? Although I guess it's still a Raster so dispatch won't work anyway...

Yeah I also dislike their overuse of Dict. Would be nice if there was a traits based interface that could say "this raster is categorical" to all the stats packages,...

They do have some native number types, notably an Int that doesn't use twos-compliment encoding

Makes sense. So that needs an additional field in the Mod object for category mappings? And an extension on CategoricalArrays to allow the conversion?

Sorry havent had time to look at this, did you figure it out?

We can bundle it with the DD breaking change

Would you say breaking change or bugffix?

Yeah, it makes sense I'm just not sure when it will all happen

I have a pretty solid plan to define a new `combine` method: https://github.com/rafaqz/DimensionalData.jl/issues/865#issuecomment-2503684558 It will also accept lazy GroupBy objects. `combine(mean, GroupBy(A, args...; kw...))` Or `combine(mean, groupby(A, args...; kw...))` Just...

Right probably the opaque array just needs to forward a few methods to parent. The reason to have it is nested dim arrays create a lot of problems but AbstractBasicDimArray...