This library is based on the package sgeostat and provides faster kriging
routines (written as dynamically loadable Fortran code).

Why an additional library?
Why are these extensions not part of sgeostat?

The origin of sgeostat is the SPlus package S+Geostats of R. Majure.
One of its aims (according to the S+Geostats homepage) was to create
an object oriented geostatistcal framework only using the S language, 
not using compiled code (may be for better OS indepedence). 

So I as the R porter of S+Geostats think I have to respect this aim and 
decided to put my Fortran code and the extensions in a separate library.

May be some day rgeostat will become independent of sgeostat, but
currently it relies on the objects and variogram estimation/fitting 
methods supplied with sgeostat.


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