Class for HDF5 variable-length datatypes.

Inherits from class H5T. This can make any datatype a variable length datatype. This would mostly be intended for storing ragged arrays.

Value

Object of class H5T_VLEN.

Methods

new(dtype_base, id = NULL)

Create a variable length datatype

Parameters

dtype_base

The basis-type of the variable length datatype

id

Internal use only

get_super()

This function implements the HDF5-API function H5Tget_super. Please see the documentation at https://docs.hdfgroup.org/hdf5/develop/group___h5_t.html for details.

describe()

Print a detailed description of the datatype; this is experimental

See also

H5T

Author

Holger Hoefling

Examples

vlen_int <- H5T_VLEN$new(h5types$H5T_NATIVE_INT)
vlen_int
#> Class: H5T_VLEN
#> Datatype: H5T_VLEN {
#>       H5T_STD_I32LE
#>    }