[R] a question about sgeostat

[Matthew Norton]

I know hese sorts of questions should be addressed directly to the author of
the extensions, but since I'm in a bit of a rush, I thought I'd fire this
out to the group at large.  Furthermore, one of the problems I'm having
seems to be indenpendent of the packages themselves (I think, but I'm not
sure).

When I try to load the library sgeostat, it tries to load the tripack
library, but seems to fail.  If I try to load the tripack library first, it
seems to be unhappy as well, but sgeostat then loads without trouble.  I'll
give you examples:


> library(sgeostat)
Loading required package: mva
Loading required package: tripack
Error in library.dynam("tripack") : dynamic library `tripack' not found
>library(tripack)
>

  ...............  or 

> library(tripack)
Error in library.dynam("tripack") : dynamic library `tripack' not found
> library(sgeostat)
Loading required package: mva
>


Does anyone have any idea as to what the problem may be here?

The second little problem I've been running across is the following.  The
function dist() is included in the sgeostat library, and at times after
I've been working away for some time in R, all of a sudden I'm informed
that "the function dist() is not found".  However, if I type:

>dist

I get a list of all the source code in the function, which tells me that
the library is still loaded into memory.  Furthermore, typing
">library(sgeostat)" doesn't seem to reload the library and function. 
Especially weird is the fact that I can even quit the program, log out, log
back in and reload R, and the same error will occur.  When this happens, I
have to reboot in order to get the library to work properly. Any ideas why
such a function might suddenly be no longer available?

In closing, I guess I should mention that I'm running R under Linux
(Mandrake 7.0) Version 1.0.1  (April 14, 2000).

Thanks in advance,

Matt



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Matthew Norton
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