Every data section of a VTK legacy file names the type of its
values explicitly (e.g. POINTS 8 float). This function translates
such a type name into the number of bytes a single value occupies on disk,
the R storage mode to read it into, and whether the values are integers.
vtk.data.type.info(type_name, filepath = "")named list with the entries 'size' (integer, bytes per value on disk),
'mode' (character, the storage mode for readBin) and
'integer' (logical, whether the values are integers).
character string, the type name as it occurs in the file, e.g. 'float', 'double' or 'vtktypeint64'.
character string, the file the type name was found in. Only used to make error messages more helpful.