customize the size of the mantissa as well as the exponent
(although in practice this is likely less relevant than being able to
customize integer types). To learn more about this functionality for
floats, we recommend to read the relevant section of the manual.</p>
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<h4 id="strings">Strings<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#strings"></a>
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<p>HDF5 itself provides access to both C-type strings and FORTRAN type
strings. As R internally uses C-strings, only C-t