Does anyone have experience opening hdf files in R (Windows OS)?

Question

I am unable to work with hdf files in R. I believe the R package hdf5 would be what I need to work with these files, but am having difficulty installing it. I g

Answer 1

The Bioconductor rhdf5 package is available on all platforms and does not have system dependencies.

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("rhdf5")

and then each session

library("rhdf5")