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</h2>
<blockquote>
<p>HDF5 is a data model, library, and file format for storing and
managing data. It supports an unlimited variety of datatypes, and is
designed for flexible and efficient I/O and for high volume and complex
data.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>As R is very often used to process large amounts of data, having a
direct interface to HDF5 is very useful. As of the writing of this
vignette, there are 2 other packages available that also implement an
interface to HDF5, <