Find the type of an object — H5Iget_type • rhdf5

Possible types returned by the function are:

H5I_FILE
H5I_GROUP
H5I_DATATYPE
H5I_DATASPACE
H5I_DATASET
H5I_ATTR

Usage

H5Iget_type(h5identifier)

Arguments

h5identifier: Object of class H5IdComponent.

Value

Returns a character vector of length 1 containing the HDF5 type for the supplied identifier.

Examples

h5file <- system.file("testfiles", "h5ex_t_array.h5", package = "rhdf5")
fid <- H5Fopen(h5file)
gid <- H5Gopen(fid, "/")

## identify the HDF5 types for these identifiers
H5Iget_type(fid)
#> [1] "H5I_FILE"
H5Iget_type(gid)
#> [1] "H5I_GROUP"

## tidy up
H5Gclose(gid)
H5Fclose(fid)