Problem reading a HDF5 file with readGDAL in Windows

Hi,

Are you sure you have the HDF5 driver in Windows?  Do you build yourself
against your own GDAL or against OSGeo4W?  (It's not in the CRAN
windows-build).

I will check it later.

This is the error the CRAN build gives (though it's actually not

recognizing the driver):

"... does not exist in the file system, and is not recognised as a
supported dataset name."

Exactly. And if I run traceback() after it, I find that it's the
'GDAL.open' function that is giving the error. In the error message I see
that the 'normalizePath' function is changing the variable name. For
example, if I use a file with a variable named "//DSSF", it gives:
"C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpsD81tO\HDF5:201407291200:\DSSF"

Thanks

Oscar.