not have to start at 1 and do not have to to consecutive
either. In order to support this more flexible datatype also optimally
on the R side, hdf5r comes with the <strong>factor_extended</strong>
class. In the HDF5 API - each enum level is inserted one at a time. As
this is rather inconvenient for a vector-oriented language like R, this
functionality has not been exposed. We instead provide an R6-class
constructor that lets us set all labels and values in one go.</p>
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