Create HDF5 group

Creates a group within an HDF5 file.

h5createGroup(file, group)

Arguments

file

The filename (character) of the file in which the dataset will be located. For advanced programmers it is possible to provide an object of class H5IdComponent representing a H5 location identifier (file or group). See H5Fcreate(), H5Fopen(), H5Gcreate(), H5Gopen() to create an object of this kind.

group

The name of the new group. The name can contain a hierarchy of groupnames, e.g. "/group1/group2/newgroup", but the function will fail if the top level groups do not exists.

Value

Returns TRUE is group was created successfully and FALSE otherwise.

Details

Creates a new group within an HDF5 file.

See also

h5createFile(), h5createDataset(), h5read(), h5write()

Author

Bernd Fischer

Examples

h5File <- tempfile(pattern = "ex_createGroup.h5")
h5createFile(h5File)

# create groups
h5createGroup(h5File, "foo")
h5createGroup(h5File, "foo/foobaa")

h5ls(h5File)
#>   group   name     otype dclass dim
#> 0     /    foo H5I_GROUP           
#> 1  /foo foobaa H5I_GROUP