title: How to read HDF format in R?
body: <p>I want to work with some data that has the format of hdf. I downloaded the file from here: 
  I tried to open/read the file using different commands but I got  errors:
  1</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>h5ls(")</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <pre><code>  2  
  </code></pre>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>library(rgdal)</p>
    
    <p>Gdalinfo("")</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <pre><code> Error: could not find function "Gdalinfo"
   &gt; GDALinfo("")
    Error in .local(.Object, ...) : 
   `' not recognised as a supported file format.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>3</p>
  
  <pre><code>            &gt; GDALinfo("" ,returnCategoryNames=FALSE)
  
               Error in .local(.Object, ...) : 
       `' not recognised as a supported file format.
  
          &gt; a=readGDAL("")
  
          Error in .local(.Object, ...) : 
        `' not recognised as a supported file format.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>3</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>a=readGDAL("file.hdf")</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <pre><code>       Error in .local(.Object, ...) : 
        `file.hdf' not recognised as a supported file format.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>4</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>GDALinfo(fname="file.hdf")</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <pre><code>       Error in .local(.Object, ...) : 
       `f' does not exist in the file system,
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and is not recognised as a supported dataset name.
  5</p>
  
  <pre><code>      &gt; GDALinfo(fname="file.hdf")
  
     Error in .local(.Object, ...) : 
        `file.hdf' not recognised as a supported file format.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I appreciate any-help and the file is can be downloaded thru the link I provided.Thanks</p>