Open an existing HDF5 file

Usage

H5Fopen(
  name,
  flags = h5default("H5F_ACC_RD"),
  fapl = NULL,
  native = FALSE,
  s3 = FALSE,
  s3credentials = NULL
)

Arguments

name: The name (or path) of the HDF5 file to be opened.
flags: Character string defining the access mode for opening the file.
fapl: H5IdComponent object representing a file access property list. Leaving this argument as NULL will use the default HDF5 properties.
native: An object of class logical. If TRUE, array-like objects are treated as stored in HDF5 row-major rather than R column-major orientation. Using native = TRUE increases HDF5 file portability between programming languages. A file written with native = TRUE should also be opened for reading with native = TRUE.
s3: Logical. If TRUE, the file specified in name is read using the HDF5 Read-Only S3 virtual file driver. Requires that Rhdf5lib was compiled with S3 support, and that name is an http:// or https:// URL.
s3credentials: A list of length three containing the AWS region, access key ID, and secret access key for accessing files in a private S3 bucket. Leave as NULL for anonymous access to public data.

Details

Possible values for the flags argument are H5F_ACC_RDWR and H5F_ACC_RDONLY. Note that HDF5's "Single Write Multiple Reader (SWMR) mode is not currently supported via rhdf5.