HDF5Array package seems to install correctly but I cannot load it, it gives me the following error:

library(HDF5Array)

Error : package or namespace load failed for ‘HDF5Array’:

.onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'HDF5Array', details :

call : H5Fcreate(file)

error : HDF5. File accessibilty. Unable to open file.

biocValid() tells me my BiocParallel version is out of date but I cannot install the latest from source because I get a "non zero exit status".

sessionInfo()

R version 3.5.0 (2018-04-23)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 16299)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252  LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252    LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                   LC_TIME=French_France.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] parallel  stats4    stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] rhdf5_2.24.0         DelayedArray_0.6.0   BiocParallel_1.13.1  IRanges_2.14.1       S4Vectors_0.18.1     BiocGenerics_0.26.0  matrixStats_0.53.1   httr_1.3.1          
[9] BiocInstaller_1.30.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] digest_0.6.15   withr_2.1.2     R6_2.2.2        git2r_0.21.0    curl_3.2        devtools_1.13.5 Rhdf5lib_1.2.0  tools_3.5.0     compiler_3.5.0  memoise_1.1.0

EDIT 2018/05/22 : outputs of library(HDF5Array) and traceback()

library(HDF5Array)
Le chargement a nécessité le package : DelayedArray
Le chargement a nécessité le package : stats4
Le chargement a nécessité le package : matrixStats
Le chargement a nécessité le package : BiocGenerics
Le chargement a nécessité le package : parallel

Attachement du package : ‘BiocGenerics’

The following objects are masked from ‘package:parallel’:

    clusterApply, clusterApplyLB, clusterCall, clusterEvalQ, clusterExport, clusterMap, parApply, parCapply, parLapply,
    parLapplyLB, parRapply, parSapply, parSapplyLB

The following objects are masked from ‘package:stats’:

    IQR, mad, sd, var, xtabs

The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:

    anyDuplicated, append, as.data.frame, basename, cbind, colMeans, colnames, colSums, dirname, do.call, duplicated, eval,
    evalq, Filter, Find, get, grep, grepl, intersect, is.unsorted, lapply, lengths, Map, mapply, match, mget, order, paste,
    pmax, pmax.int, pmin, pmin.int, Position, rank, rbind, Reduce, rowMeans, rownames, rowSums, sapply, setdiff, sort, table,
    tapply, union, unique, unsplit, which, which.max, which.min

Le chargement a nécessité le package : S4Vectors

Attachement du package : ‘S4Vectors’

The following object is masked from ‘package:base’:

    expand.grid

Le chargement a nécessité le package : IRanges

Attachement du package : ‘IRanges’

The following object is masked from ‘package:grDevices’:

    windows

Le chargement a nécessité le package : BiocParallel

Attachement du package : ‘DelayedArray’

The following objects are masked from ‘package:matrixStats’:

    colMaxs, colMins, colRanges, rowMaxs, rowMins, rowRanges

The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:

    aperm, apply

Le chargement a nécessité le package : rhdf5
Erreur : package or namespace load failed for ‘HDF5Array’:
 .onLoad a échoué dans loadNamespace() pour 'HDF5Array', détails :
  appel : H5Fcreate(file)
  erreur : HDF5. File accessibilty. Unable to open file.

> traceback()
6: stop(msg, call. = FALSE, domain = NA)
5: value[[3L]](cond)
4: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
3: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
2: tryCatch({
       attr(package, "LibPath") <- which.lib.loc
       ns <- loadNamespace(package, lib.loc)
       env <- attachNamespace(ns, pos = pos, deps)
   }, error = function(e) {
       P <- if (!is.null(cc <- conditionCall(e)))
           paste(" in", deparse(cc)[1L])
       else ""
       msg <- gettextf("package or namespace load failed for %s%s:\n %s",
           sQuote(package), P, conditionMessage(e))
       if (logical.return)
           message(paste("Error:", msg), domain = NA)
       else stop(msg, call. = FALSE, domain = NA)
   })
1: library(HDF5Array)

This seems to be an issue with the way Windows & HDF5 interact when trying to access files where the path is UTF-8 encoded.  I'm not exactly clear if the fundamental issue lies with Windows or HDF5 (or maybe both) but there's some more details at https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/Advanced/UsingUnicode/index.html.

It also seems that some of the R's internal path processing can change the encoding, which is why the first example below will fail and the second will succeed, even though the first is basically just a wrapper around the second.

setwd("éxample")
rhdf5::h5createFile("test.h5")
rhdf5::H5Fclose( rhdf5::H5Fcreate("test.h5") )

I've updated rhdf5 to try and ensure paths are presented using the native encoding for the system.  This should work in the case above where 'é' can be represented in the Latin-1 encoding, but I expect it will still cause issues if more exotic characters are present.

If you'd like to test this then you can install rhdf5 version 2.25.3 from Github with

BiocInstaller::biocLite('grimbough/rhdf5')

and then see if if library(HDF5Array) works for you.

Cath mentioned that when building package from source, she received an error

Warning in system(cmd) : 'make' not found 
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'BiocParallel'

Based on this error I could wager a bet that Rtools are not found in PATH. Here's how my PATH looks like:

C:\RBuildTools\3.3\bin;C:\RBuildTools\3.3\gcc-4.6.3\bin64;C:\RBuildTools\3.3\gcc-4.6.3\bin;C:\RBuildTools\3.3\gcc-4.6.3\i686-w64-mingw32\bin