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h5lite: Simplified 'HDF5' Interface

A user-friendly interface for the Hierarchical Data Format 5 ('HDF5') library designed to "just work." It bundles the necessary system libraries to ensure easy installation on all platforms. Features smart defaults that automatically map R objects (vectors, matrices, data frames) to efficient 'HDF5' types, removing the need to manage low-level details like dataspaces or property lists. Uses the 'HDF5' library developed by The HDF Group <https://www.hdfgroup.org/>.

Version: 2.0.0.2
Depends: R (≥ 4.2.0)
LinkingTo: hdf5lib (≥ 2.0.0.5)
Suggests: bit64, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-01-29
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.h5lite
Author: Daniel P. Smith ORCID iD [aut, cre], Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research [cph, fnd]
Maintainer: Daniel P. Smith <dansmith01 at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/cmmr/h5lite/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/cmmr/h5lite, https://cmmr.github.io/h5lite/
NeedsCompilation: yes
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: h5lite results

Documentation:

Reference manual: h5lite.html , h5lite.pdf
Vignettes: Atomic Vectors (source, R code)
Attributes In-Depth (source, R code)
Data Frames (source, R code)
Data Organization (source, R code)
Data Types & Compression (source, R code)
Get Started with h5lite (source, R code)
Matrices and Arrays (source, R code)
Object-Oriented Interface (source, R code)
Parallel Processing (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: h5lite_2.0.0.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: h5lite_2.0.0.2.zip, r-release: h5lite_2.0.0.2.zip, r-oldrel: h5lite_2.0.0.2.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): h5lite_2.0.0.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): h5lite_2.0.0.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): h5lite_2.0.0.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): h5lite_2.0.0.2.tgz

Linking:

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These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.