Installation problem

[Dannyxu123]

Hi! I have recently been updating Seurat V5. I am also very excited about the BPcells ability to handle single-cell data with millions of cells. However, after several trials, I just could not install BPcells on windows 11.
I followed your instruction about pre-installing HDF5 first by running "conda install -c anaconda hdf5", indeed I could see the hdf5 after running "conda list". However, after running "remotes::install_github("bnprks/BPCells", quiet = F)" at the Rstudio, I got the errors shown below:

• installing source package 'BPCells' ...
  ** using staged installation
  Testing hdf5 by compiling example program...
  tools/h5write.c:19:10: fatal error: hdf5.h: No such file or directory
  #include "hdf5.h"
  ^~~~~~~~
  compilation terminated.
  Unable to locate libhdf5. Please install manually or edit compiler flags.
  ERROR: configuration failed for package 'BPCells'

It seems that R could not find this hdf5.h file despite that I have installed it. I've checked the issues#9 but seems that upgrading Rtools simply do not work for me.
Also, I've also tried to install hdf5 with cMake, according to hdfgroup instructions(https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/support/Building+HDF5+with+CMake). the R still could not locate libhdf5 either.
I am well aware that this problem is not likely to be caused by BPcells, but I am really looking forward to your kind help.

[bnprks]

I think issue #9 will have your answer. On Windows you don't need to install hdf5 yourself, but you do need Rtools43 (I think I might have a bug that causes errors with Rtools42 right now, but happy to fix if you can't use R 4.3)

[bnprks]

I'm closing this for inactivity -- feel free to re-open or post additional comments if you still haven't been able to fix your problem