1.99.10
- improved parameter checking and warning messages h5create functions
- check for existence of objects before creating a group, dataset, or attribute
- h5create functions now return TRUE or FALSE depending on success
- The default value for datasets is set to 0 (set_fill_value) when creating datasets
- A small timing experiment for chunking and compression is added to the vignette

1.99.9
- corrected typos in the vignette
- removed the part on installing libhdf5 from the vignette, since it is installed automatically now
- added examples to man pages
- NAMESPACE exports H5Sselect_index
- set return value of get_info functions to visible
- removed a bug in h5read(.., index=list(NULL,1))

1.99.8
- Faster detection of memory space dimensions for hyperslab reading

1.99.7
- warn if object has an attribute of type list (e.g. dimnames). list
  attributes can not be written to hdf5-files.

0.2.5
- added list reading and writing with h5read and h5write
- implementation of h5write as generic S3 function
- added reading and writing of attributes
- added argument index in h5write / h5read to allow for R-style subsetting

0.2.4
- bug removed: reading data with h5dump did not call h5read
 
0.2.3
- bug removed: writing strings truncated one character
- bug removed: warning about not coercing multi-dimensional
  data to data.frame now only appears when reading a
  compound data type 

0.2.2
- reading support for COMPOUND data types

0.2.1
- removed warnings in compilation of libhdf5