Get the name of an HDF5 attribute object

Retrieves the name of the attribute specified by an HDF5 attribute object.

Usage

H5Aget_name(h5attribute)

Arguments

h5attribute

An object of class H5IdComponent representing an attribute. Normally created by H5Aopen() or similar.

Value

A character vector of length 1 containing the name of the attribute.

Examples

h5File <- tempfile(fileext = ".h5")
fid <- H5Fcreate(h5File)
sid <- H5Screate_simple(1)
aid <- H5Acreate(fid, "some_attribute", "H5T_NATIVE_INT", sid)

H5Aget_name(aid)
#> [1] "some_attribute"

H5Aclose(aid)
H5Sclose(sid)
H5Fclose(fid)
file.remove(h5File)
#> [1] TRUE