title: New equivalent of hdf5load
body: <p>Since the standard R package to manage HDF5 format has changed to <code>rhdf5</code>, some features are no longer available. One of those is <code>hdf5load</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>h5pointer = hdf5load(file=h5file,load=FALSE,verbosity=0,tidy=TRUE)
  variable  = h5pointer$element
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>where <code>h5file</code> is the <code>HDF5</code> file to read in. One could solve the problem this way:</p>
  
  <pre><code>variable = h5read (h5file, "element")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The problem is that I have a huge number of those lines so this would mean to change a lot of code lines.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to have an object like <code>h5pointer</code> from which I can later dereference the elements of?</p>