rhdf5 (version 2.16.0)

HDF5 Datatype Interface: HDF5 Datatype Interface

Description

These functions create and manipulate the datatype which describes elements of a dataset.

Usage

H5Tcopy     (dtype_id = h5default(type = "H5T"))
H5Tset_size (dtype_id = h5default(type = "H5T"), size)

Arguments

dtype_id

A character name of a datatype. See h5const("H5T") for possible datatypes. Can also be an integer representing an HDF5 datatype.

size

The total size in bytes.

Value

The functions return the standard return value from their respective C-functions.

Details

Interface to the HDF5 C-library libhdf5. See http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/RM_H5T.html for further details.

References

http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5

See Also

rhdf5

Examples

# create character datatype with string length 10
tid <- H5Tcopy("H5T_C_S1")
H5Tset_size(tid, 10L)

# List all predefined types implemented in the R-interface
h5const("H5T")

# List all available type classes (not all of them are implemented)
h5const("H5T_CLASS")