I would like to install rhdf5 in a secured, Windows-based server
environment that (for security reasons) cannot access outside servers or
websites. As the environment is "offline" in this sense, I cannot use the
recommended procedure involving biocLite.R and the bioconductor repository
directly for installing the rhdf5 package.

I can upload specific files to the offline environment, but not install
software directly myself (lack write-access to the relevant folders on the
server where software is located). However, the system administrator has
placed a mirror of CRAN in the "offline" environment, and installing new
CRAN packages in R is unproblematic.

For rhdf5 I have tried:

1. Install rhdf5 directly: Uploading the rhdf5_2.8.0.tar.gz file and
installing it from the package manager in RStudio. This gives the message
that "ERROR: dependency 'zlibbioc' is not available for package 'rhdf5'"

2. Installing required packages that rhdf5 relies on: Uploading and
installing zlibbioc in the same manner. This gives me a warning that "This
package has a configure script. It probably needs manual configuration" -
followed by a compilation error (see full R-message here
<http://screencast.com/t/2bTXvwuZ>).

I am unable to figure out what the "status 127" error message refers to, or
if this is even a sensible way to proceed.

Has anyone got a simple solution that I can implement or (if needed) a more
technical solution I can forward to my system administrator?

Sincerely,

Ole Rogeberg

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