H5T: HDF5 Datatype Interface
In patperry/rhdf5: HDF5 interface to R

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

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

1 2	H5Tcopy (dtype_id = h5default(type = "H5T")) H5Tset_size (dtype_id = h5default(type = "H5T"), size)

`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.

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

http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5

rhdf5

# 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")