H5Iget_type: Find the type of an object

In grimbough/rhdf5: R Interface to HDF5

Find the type of an object

Description

Possible types returned by the function are:

• H5I_FILE

• H5I_GROUP

• H5I_DATATYPE

• H5I_DATASPACE

• H5I_DATASET

• H5I_ATTR

Usage

H5Iget_type(h5identifier)

Arguments

h5identifier

Object of class H5IdComponent.

Value

Returns a character vector of length 1 containing the HDF5 type for the supplied identifier.

Examples

h5file <- system.file("testfiles", "h5ex_t_array.h5", package="rhdf5")
fid <- H5Fopen(h5file)
gid <- H5Gopen(fid, "/")

## identify the HDF5 types for these identifiers
H5Iget_type(fid)
H5Iget_type(gid)

## tidy up
H5Gclose(gid)
H5Fclose(fid)

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