## st is VRT text gdal can open
tf <- tempfile(fileext = ".vrt")
writeLines(st, tf)
stars::read_mdim(tf)
#Error: cannot allocate vector of size 42083.1 Gb
stars::read_mdim(tf, proxy = TRUE)
# stars_proxy object with 1 attribute in 1 file(s):
# $analysed_sst
# [1] "[...]/file185b41f84579b.vrt"
# dimension(s):
# from to offset delta refsys x/y
# x 1 36000 -180 0.01 WGS 84 [x]
# y 1 17999 89.99 -0.01 WGS 84 [y]
# time 1 8717 2002-06-01 1 days Date

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