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Hi,
I am having a problem when trying to install the rhdf5 package. My R release is 3.1.2 which is running on a Linux system.
My code is the following:
rm(list = ls())
download.file("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R", destfile = "biocLite.R")
source("biocLite.R")
biocLite("rhdf5")
and here is the installation report:
BioC_mirror: http://bioconductor.org Using Bioconductor version 3.0 (BiocInstaller 1.16.5), R version 3.1.2. Installing package(s) 'rhdf5' trying URL 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/bioc/src/contrib/rhdf5_2.10.0.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 5355635 bytes (5.1 Mb) opened URL downloaded 5678 bytes Error in readBin(con, "raw", n = 512L) : negative length vectors are not allowed
Do you have a fix for this problem?
Best Regards,
Pierre-Julien
You are not installing rhdf5 in the recommended way. See its landing page for the recommended way. It's also recommended to upgrade to R-3.2 and Bioconductor 3.2.
I'm just guessing but does your institution have a proxy or firewall?
Yes, my institution has a proxy and firewall...
I tried to install the package the recommended way but I get the same error message. As for upgrading R, I asked but it may take some time before our IT guys grant me the permission to do so.
Anyway, thanks for the help Dan!