The question puzzled me at first, because of your use of "library". It looks as if the hdf5 r "package" utilises the "windows hdf5 library" binary.
My reading is that you will have to compile the package yourself after you have downloaded the hdf windows dll from hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu The instructions are in win.readme.txt of the package source which you can download at planetmirror or aarnet. I think the use of the hdf dll is the reason a windows binary cannot be made available for direct download. Ciao, Tom _________________________________________________ Tom Mulholland Senior Policy Officer WA Country Health Service Tel: (08) 9222 4062 The contents of this e-mail transmission are confidentia...{{dropped:10}} ______________________________________________ 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.