Retrieve or set the precision of an HDF5 datatype

Source: R/H5T.R

Retrieve or set the precision of an HDF5 datatype

H5Tset_precision(dtype_id, precision)

H5Tget_precision(dtype_id)

Arguments

dtype_id

ID of HDF5 datatype to set precision of.

precision

The number of bytes of precision for the datatype.

Value

  • H5Tget_precision() returns an integer giving the number of significant bits used by the given datatype.

  • H5Tset_precision() is call for its side-effect of modifying the precision of a datatype. It will invisibly return TRUE if this is successful and will stop with an error if the operation fails.