[R] Is there a project to compile R scripts into stand-alone executable file?

[David Winsemius]

On Sep 17, 2010, at 11:47 AM, yehengxin wrote:

>
> I know Matlab's M file can be converted to a stand-alone executable  
> file.  I
> wonder if there is a project aimed at compiling R scripts into stand- 
> alone
> executable file.  I think it will be very promising for R to be more  
> widely
> used in different fields.

http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/bytecode.html

And of course we cannot forget the recent efforts of Ihaka to chart a  
path toward a compiled/parallel-aware/R-similar statistical language:
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/%7Eihaka/downloads/Compstat-2008.pdf

-- 
David