postDataset: Function to create a dataset in a file with extensible...
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View source: R/rhdf5api.R

Function to create a dataset in a file with extensible dimensions

1	postDataset(url, domain, type, shape, maxdims)

`url`	character string with http server url
`domain`	character string with domain name to be created
`type`	character string with dataset type like H5T_IEEE_F32LE
`shape`	numeric vector with initial dimensions of dataset
`maxdims`	numeric vector with maximum extent of each dimension or 0 for unlimited dimension

r http response object

"http://170.223.248.164:7248/datasets"

if (nchar(Sys.getenv("password"))>0) {
    tstring = sub("\\/", "", tempfile(tmpdir=""))
    dom = putDomain("http://170.223.248.164:7248", paste(tstring, ".hdfgroup.org", sep=""))
    ds = postDataset(url="http://170.223.248.164:7248/datasets",
        domain=paste(tstring, ".hdfgroup.org", sep=""),  
        type="H5T_IEEE_F32LE",
        shape=c(10,5), maxdims=c(0,5))
    ans = readBin(ds$content, what="character")
    ans
    }