[R] h5r package: cannot find hdf5

[David Winsemius]

> On Dec 17, 2016, at 5:09 PM, Pedro Montenegro <a67355 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm new to R and Linux, and I have an issue I didn't see solved on the
> internet.
> 
> I'm using Ubuntu Mate and installed R version 2.11 since the current
> version does not support R-kinetics.
> What happens is that I have hdf5 headers and libraries installed
> 
> $ whereis hdf5
> hdf5: /usr/include/hdf5
> 
> But when I'm installing the package inside R (install.packages) or outside
> R (R CMD INSTALL) the program reports the following error:
> 
>> install.packages('h5r')
> Warning in install.packages("h5r") :

There is also a bioconductor package that provides an HDF5 interface:

http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/rhdf5.html

I have no idea whether it's config files might include a more extensive search for installed versions of HDF5. Unlike h5r it is available for all three major forks of R.

-- 
David.
>  argument 'lib' is missing: using
> '/home/pedro/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.11'
> Warning message:
> In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
>  package ‘h5r’ is not available
>> install.packages('/home/pedro/h5r_1.4.7.tar.gz',repos=NULL,type='source')
> Warning in install.packages("/home/pedro/h5r_1.4.7.tar.gz", repos = NULL,  :
>  argument 'lib' is missing: using
> '/home/pedro/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.11'
> * installing *source* package ‘h5r’ ...
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> 
> 
> checking for library containing inflate... -lz
> checking for library containing H5open... no
> configure: error: Can't find HDF5
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘h5r’
> * removing ‘/home/pedro/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/2.11/h5r’
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("/home/pedro/h5r_1.4.7.tar.gz", repos = NULL,  :
>  installation of package '/home/pedro/h5r_1.4.7.tar.gz' had non-zero exit
> status.
> 
> I tried to reinstall HDF5, R and even the whole OS and do it all over
> again. Also tried to add the library to the environment table, do it from
> the library's directory and nothing works.
> 
> Is there someone who had the same error and was able to solve it?
> Is there someone who as a clue how to solve?
> 
> I'm sorry if there is a similar post around, I've seen some but I don't
> find one where the problem is solved.
> Best regards!
> 
> *Pedro*
> 
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA