Determine whether a file is in the HDF5 format

Source: R/H5F.R

H5Fis_hdf5() determines whether a file is in the HDF5 format.

H5Fis_hdf5(name, showWarnings = TRUE)

Arguments

name

Character vector of length 1, giving the path to the file to be checked.

showWarnings

If the file doesn't exist an warning is generated. Setting this argument to FALSE will suppress the warning.

Value

Returns TRUE, if the file is an HDF5 file, or FALSE otherwise. In the case the file doesn't exist, NA is returned