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.