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h5mread

A fast HDF5 reader

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 1.5.3

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3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release)

The main function in the h5mread package is h5mread(), which allows reading arbitrary data from an HDF5 dataset into R, similarly to what the h5read() function from the rhdf5 package does. In the case of h5mread(), the implementation has been optimized to make it as fast and memory-efficient as possible.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.h5mread

Installation

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("h5mread")

Details

MaintainerHervé Pagès <hpages.on.github@gmail.com>
AuthorHervé Pagès [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8272-4522>)
LicenseArtistic-2.0
URLhttps://bioconductor.org/packages/h5mread
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/Bioconductor/h5mread/issues
System RequirementsGNU make
Source branchdevel
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsDataImport, DataRepresentation, Infrastructure, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/h5mread/

Citation

From within R, enter citation("h5mread"):

Hervé Pagès. h5mread: A fast HDF5 reader. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.h5mread, R package version 1.5.3, https://bioconductor.org/packages/h5mread.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Documentation

Download

Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packageh5mread_1.5.3.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)h5mread_1.5.3.zip
macOS binary (arm64)h5mread_1.5.3.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)h5mread_1.5.3.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.5), methods, rhdf5 (>= 2.57.12), BiocGenerics, SparseArray

Imports: stats, tools, rhdf5filters, S4Vectors (>= 0.51.7), IRanges, S4Arrays

LinkingTo: Rhdf5lib, S4Vectors

Suggests: BiocParallel, ExperimentHub, TENxBrainData, HDF5Array, testthat, knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle

Reverse dependencies

Depends On Me (1): HDF5Array

Imports Me (1): SpliceWiz

Suggests Me (1): MultiAssayExperiment