new(type = c("c", "fortran"), size = 1, id = NULL)
Create a string datatype
Parameters
A
C or fortran type string
size
Size of the string object. Set to Inf for variable size strings
id
internal use only
get_size(variable_as_inf = TRUE)
Retrieves the length of the string, setting it to Inf it is of variable length.
This function implements the HDF5-API function H5Tis_variable_str.
Please see the documentation at https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/H5T_IS_VARIABLE_STR for details.