The functions listed below are auxiliary functions but are exported by the NAMESPACE. The user should not require to call these directly.
The functions are listed here for a better understanding of the code (to fulfill the tutorial style paradigm).
validspamobject(object) A few sanity checks if object
is a proper spam object.
dcheck(x), icheck(x) testing and forcing of x
to doubles and integers. These functions are used when calling Fortran
routines.