The error message is here: configure: error: Can't find HDF5 The hdf5 package is an interface to the HDF5 library, so you need to install hdf5 and hdf5-devel through your package manager (yum or apt-get or whatever you use to install things on your linux distro).
Or you can get it straight from the source: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html Sarah On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:14 AM, uday <uday_143...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi > Thanks for reply > after usinginstall.packages("hdf5") > I get error > {Installing package(s) into ‘/home/uday/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.14’ > (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) > trying URL > 'http://cran.revolutionanalytics.com/src/contrib/hdf5_1.6.9.tar.gz' > Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 50870 bytes (49 Kb) > opened URL > ================================================== > downloaded 49 Kb > > * installing *source* package ‘hdf5’ ... > ** package ‘hdf5’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > 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 ANSI C... 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 ‘hdf5’ > * removing ‘/home/uday/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.14/hdf5’ > Warning in install.packages : > installation of package ‘hdf5’ had non-zero exit status > > The downloaded packages are in > ‘/tmp/Rtmp7Ot3Yl/downloaded_packages’ } > > So what is this non-zero exit status ? > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/package-installation-error-in-unix-tp4636995p4637026.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Sarah Goslee http://www.stringpage.com http://www.sarahgoslee.com http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
