ta-frames, arrays and
variable length (HDF5-VLEN) objects. Some are relatively
straightforward, others are more complicated. Here, numeric datatypes
can be tricky due to the limited ability of R to represent certain
datatypes, specifically long doubles or 64bit-integers.</p>
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<p>For numeric datatypes, the situation is in certain circumstances a
bit tricky. In gen