Michael,

Did you run HDF5 tests when you built HDF5 library? Did they pass?

Elena
On Mar 29, 2010, at 7:04 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> 
> I was wondering if anyone has experience with the hdf5 package for the R
> statistical software.  Right now we can get the code to compile and while
> it usually reads existing hdf5 files it doesn't write hdf5 files that can
> be read by itself or other software.
> 
> We have tried installing this on various Linux machines (both Red Hat and
> Ubuntu) by using both the package managers and compiling the code from
> scratch.  We've compiled using both HDF5 1.8 and 1.6 and neither works.
> 
> Specifically, this simple test in R produces the following error
> 
> Step 1: create file (run from within R)
> 
> library(hdf5)
> data  = 1:10
> hdf5save("test.h5","dat")
> 
> Step 2: exit and then restart R
> 
> hdf5load("test.h5")
> 
> HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 library version: 1.6.6 thread
> 47700932800864.  Back trace follows.
> #000: H5F.c line 2049 in H5Fopen(): unable to open file
>  major(04): File interface
>  minor(17): Unable to open file
> #001: H5F.c line 1829 in H5F_open(): unable to read superblock
>  major(04): File interface
>  minor(24): Read failed
> #002: H5Fsuper.c line 114 in H5F_read_superblock(): unable to find file
> signature
>  major(04): File interface
>  minor(19): Not an HDF5 file
> #003: H5F.c line 1281 in H5F_locate_signature(): unable to find a valid
> file signature
>  major(05): Low-level I/O layer
>  minor(29): Unable to initialize object
> Error in hdf5load("test.h5") : unable to open HDF file: test.h5
> 
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