[R] hdf library for windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 21/04/2012 13:30, will smith wrote:

What question?  Please see what the posting guide has to say about context.

> The question puzzled me at first, because of your use of "library". It
> looks as if the hdf5 r "package" utilises the "windows hdf5 library"
> binary.
>
> My reading is that you will have to compile the package yourself after
> you have downloaded the hdf windows dll from hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu The
> instructions are in win.readme.txt of the package source which you can
> download at planetmirror or aarnet.
>
> I think the use of the hdf dll is the reason a windows binary cannot be
> made available for direct download.

Not quite: it is the unavailability of a working 64-bit version that 
means it is not distributed from CRAN.

>
> Ciao, Tom
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