Class for HDF5 string datatypes.
Inherits from class H5T.
Object of class H5T_STRING.
new(type = c("c", "fortran"), size = 1, id = NULL)Create a string datatype
Parameters
C or fortran type string
Size of the string object. Set to Inf for variable size strings
internal use only
get_size(variable_as_inf = TRUE)Retrieves the length of the string, setting it to Inf it is of variable length.
This function implements the HDF5-API function H5Tis_variable_str.
Please see the documentation at https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/H5T_IS_VARIABLE_STR for details.
get_cset()This function implements the HDF5-API function H5Tget_cset. Please see the documentation at https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/H5T_GET_CSET for details.
set_cset(cset = c("unknown", "UTF-8"))This function implements the HDF5-API function H5Tset_cset. Please see the documentation at https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/H5T_SET_CSET for details.
set_strpad(strpad)This function implements the HDF5-API function H5Tset_strpad. Please see the documentation at https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/H5T_SET_STRPAD for details.
get_strpad()This function implements the HDF5-API function H5Tget_strpad. Please see the documentation at https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/H5T_GET_STRPAD for details.
describe()Print a detailed description of the datatype; this is experimental
Holger Hoefling
# fixed width string str_flen <- H5T_STRING$new(size=100) str_flen$is_vlen() str_flen # variable length string str_vlen <- H5T_STRING$new(size=Inf) str_vlen$is_vlen() str_vlen
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