Get and set the type of storage used to store the raw data for a dataset

Source: R/H5P.R

Possible options for the layout argument are:

  • H5D_COMPACT

  • H5D_CONTIGUOUS

  • H5D_CHUNKED

  • H5D_VIRTUAL

H5Pset_layout(h5plist, layout = h5default("H5D"))

H5Pget_layout(h5plist)

Arguments

h5plist

An object of class H5IdComponent representing a dataset creation property list.

layout

A character giving the name of a dataset layout type.

Details

The names of the layout types can also be obtained via h5const("H5D").