 in R they are now in position 1, 11, 21,
and 31. In order to do this, we first internally read the HDF5 array
into an R-array of shape 4 x 10 and then transpose the result.</p>
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<p>In HDF5, there are also variable-length data types. Essentially, this
corresponds to an R list-like object, with the additional restriction
that 