couldnt install h5 even with libhdf5-dev

[rbpisupati]

biocLite("h5") BioC_mirror: https://bioconductor.org Using Bioconductor 3.3 (BiocInstaller 1.22.3), R 3.3.2 (2016-10-31). Installing package(s) ‘h5’ trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/h5_0.9.8.tar.gz' Content type 'unknown' length 393742 bytes (384 KB)

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• installing source package ‘h5’ ... package ‘h5’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked checking for h5c++... /usr/bin/h5c++ checking for ggrep... /bin/grep checking whether /bin/grep accepts -o... yes checking for ggrep... (cached) /bin/grep checking whether /bin/grep accepts -o... yes configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating src/Makevars libs g++ -std=c++11 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include -I"/home/GMI/rahul.pisupati/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3/Rcpp/include" -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c Attribute.cpp -o Attribute.o Attribute.cpp: In function ‘Rcpp::XPtr CreateAttribute_H5File(Rcpp::XPtr, std::string, char, Rcpp::NumericVector, int)’: Attribute.cpp:22:26: error: ‘class H5::H5File’ has no member named ‘createAttribute’ Attribute attr = loc->createAttribute(attributename, dtype, dataspace, H5P_DEFAULT); ^ Attribute.cpp: In function ‘Rcpp::XPtr OpenAttribute_H5File(Rcpp::XPtr, std::string)’: Attribute.cpp:116:25: error: ‘class H5::H5File’ has no member named ‘openAttribute’ Attribute attr = loc->openAttribute(attributename); ^ make: *** [Attribute.o] Error 1 ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘h5’

[mannau]

Please explain which hdf5 version and operating system you are using. Best, m

[mannau]

I guess you're version of the hdf5 library is too old - see SystemRequirements. -m

[geneorama]

For the next person, here's a link to requirements: https://github.com/mannau/h5#requirements