R help - Sep 2010 - Is there a project to compile R scripts into stand-alone executable file?

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.  
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yehengxin <xye78 <at> hotmail.com> writes:
> 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.  
  You could ask in R-devel, but so far there has been no one who
has needed this badly enough to go to the trouble of doing it.
What is your use case?

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

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David