ensions. In addition
to that, there are also array-datatypes that allow for the inclusion for
arrays e.g. inside a compound object. Translation to and from arrays is
relatively straightforward and only involves setting the correct
<em>dim</em> attribute in R.</p>
<p>In addition to that, however, there is small complication. In R, the
first dimension is the fastest changing dimension. In HDF5 (same as in
C), the last dimension is however the fastest changing one. For
datasets, we work around this problem by