Check whether an specific attribute exists for an HDF5 object

Source: R/H5A.R

Check whether an specific attribute exists for an HDF5 object

H5Aexists(h5obj, name)

Arguments

h5obj

An object of class H5IdComponent representing a H5 object identifier (file, group, or dataset). See H5Fcreate(), H5Fopen(), H5Gcreate(), H5Gopen(), H5Dcreate(), or H5Dopen() to create an object of this kind.

name

The name of the attribute (character).

Value

A logical value indicating whether an attribute with name name exists for the object specified by h5obj.