hdf5 is a software module available on Comet.
If you are intending to use HDF5 within R, be aware that due to practical limits of the size of the library path not all module library paths are added by default. If you are compiling R libraries which need HDF5, then you will need to extend your LD_LIBRARY_PATH for any additional system libraries (HDF5, Szip, etc) that your R library needs. Please take a look at how to extend your library search path within an R or R-Studio environment:
To access hdf5 on Comet, run module load hdf5. This will load the default version of hdf5.
An overview of the module information is shown below (module -r spider ^hdf5$):
hdf5: hdf5/1.14.6
This module can be loaded directly: module load hdf5/1.14.6
Help:
HDF5 compiled with parallel I/O support using MPI.
Provides tools and libraries for managing large scientific datasets.
If there are multiple versions of hdf5 listed, then you can load a specific version as follows:
$ module load hdf5/version_string
You can find the most up to date information whilst logged on to Comet by running module -r spider ^hdf5$.
The module hdf5 has the following embedded help text (module help hdf5):
HDF5 compiled with parallel I/O support using MPI.
Provides tools and libraries for managing large scientific datasets.