could not find function "computeCellDistance"

[honeymelontoast]

I'm trying to load the spatial transcriptomic information from a Xenium object consisting of multiple samples and ran into this error when trying to compute the cell distance:

> d = computeCellDistance(spatial.locs)
Error in computeCellDistance(spatial.locs) : could not find function "computeCellDistance"

I haven't seen this error arise in previous cases. Would anyone have an idea of the cause of this issue?

R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20
Running under: macOS Ventura 13.4

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib 
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib;  LAPACK version 3.12.0

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

time zone: America/Toronto
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats4    stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

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[13] Biostrings_2.72.1                 XVector_0.44.0                    GenomicRanges_1.56.2             
[16] GenomeInfoDb_1.40.1               IRanges_2.38.1                    S4Vectors_0.42.1                 
[19] BiocGenerics_0.50.0               Seurat_5.1.0                      SeuratObject_5.0.2               
[22] sp_2.1-4                          Signac_1.14.0                     openxlsx_4.2.7.1                 
[25] patchwork_1.3.0                   lubridate_1.9.3                   forcats_1.0.0                    
[28] stringr_1.5.1                     dplyr_1.1.4                       purrr_1.0.2                      
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