sing, an anonymous dataset is created</p></dd>

<dt>robj</dt>
<dd><p>An R-object to take as a template for creating the dataset. Either <code>robj</code> or both <code>dtype</code> and <code>space</code> have to be provided</p></dd>

<dt>dtype</dt>
<dd><p>The datatype to use for the creation of the object. Can be null if <code>robj</code> is given.</p></dd>

<dt>space</dt>
<dd><p>The space to use for the object creation. Can be null if <code>robj</code> is given. Otherwise an object of type <code>H5S</code>