r.in.xzy not found in QGIS 3.16.1 with GRASS 7.8.4

Question

I am running QGIS 3.16.1 with GRASS 7.8.4 and I am unable to find the r.in.xzy raster function within GRASS.

My aim is to count the number of points falling into each of the cells of a raster layer. Is any replacement of the r.in.xzy function?

I have tried most of them but it seem that most similar one works only for las files.

Answer 1

I believe that the r.in.xyz module is missing in QGIS Processing since you must first define the raster resolution before doing the input of an xyz file. (The Processing framework creates a new, temporary GRASS environment for each module run, and prepares the extent and resolution based on input layers, and this would not work for r.in.xyz)

Why not run the module directly in GRASS??