HDF5 Datatype Interface {rhdf5} | R Documentation |
These functions create and manipulate the datatype which describes elements of a dataset.
H5Tcopy (dtype_id = h5default(type = "H5T")) H5Tset_size (dtype_id = h5default(type = "H5T"), size)
dtype_id |
A character name of a datatype. See |
size |
The total size in bytes. |
Interface to the HDF5 C-library libhdf5. See http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/RM_H5T.html for further details.
The functions return the standard return value from their respective C-functions.
Bernd Fischer
# 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")