PACKAGE="akima" appended to .Fortran calls solves the alpha crash problem!

R/interp.new.R

@@ -88,8 +88,7 @@
                   double(36 * n),
                   integer(25 * n),
                   extrap = as.logical(extrap),
-                  near = 
-                  )
+                  PACKAGE = "akima")
   temp <- ans[c("x", "y", "z", "extrap")]
   if(miss)
     temp$z[temp$extrap]<-NA