ersionDiagram.png" alt="Schematic of dataype conversion"><div class="figcaption">Schematic of dataype conversion</div>
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<p>The underlying principle is that any internal conversion between R
types is done by R (with the resulting handling of NA’s and overflows),
whereas any conversion between R-types and Non-R-types is done by the
HDF5 library (usually meaning that on overflow, truncation occurs).</p>
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