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HighFive: HighFive Headers for R

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This package provides R with access to HighFive header files. HighFive provides an idiomatic Modern C++ interfacee to HDF5.

By providing the HighFive library in this package, we offer a more efficient distribution system for CRAN as replication of this code in the sources of other packages is avoided.

To use it, simply add it to the LinkingTo: field in the DESCRIPTION field of your R package---and the R package infrastructure tools will then know how to set include flags correctly on all architectures supported by R.

NB: These header files require libhdf5 and a compiler implementing C++14 or greater, which is, to my understanding, all compilers supported by modern R.

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Andrew Robbins (with README and package structure shamelessly borrowed from Dirk Eddelbuettel)

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This package is provided under the same license as HighFive, the BSL-1.0

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install.packages('HighFive')

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January 8th, 2026

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HighFive-package

The HighFive C++ interface to HDF5