R contrib packages. Some of the packages here are meanwhile (with maybe higher version numbers) at CRAN: packages ash, sgeostat, akima as well as package entropy which has been renamed into edesign (somewhere in 2009) The other packages (rgeostat, baykrig and kdesign) are still not CRAN ready because of their strange interdependencies (they use some common Fortran code in a non portable manner), also pvmkrige is not finally tested and needs some rework.