Attention, kdesign, entropy as well as rgeostat and baykrig (which are needed for kdesign) are preliminary versions, incomplete and not fully tested. kdesign relies on a patched version of R: Apply R-1.2.0-genlibs-patch and recompile your R installation, better get genlibs.tgz and read the acompanying README, baykrig will even need the R-1.2.0-objs-patch. Then build rgeostat and baykrig with the command R INSTALL --build-lib-so {rgeostat|baykrig} Then "R INSTALL kdesign" will find the shared libraries from rgeostat and baykrig and link kdesign against these libraries. This may change in future versions.