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<p>The situation is a bit more tricky for table-like objects. In R,
these are data-frames, which internally are a list of vectors. In HDF5,
a table is a Compound object, that is equivalent to C-struct -
i.e. every row is represented together whereas in R every column is
represented together. Each of these approaches has certain advantages,
but the challenge here is to translate between them.</p>
<p>This is done in the straightforward manner. When converting from R to
HDF5, the colum