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As I recall, the major blocker is that R links against a number of other things (notably BLAS, pcre, etc) so while technically possible (?) I suppose, the universe of things you'd have to compile over and then get working is much larger than just the R internals. I think most people who consider this (including me years ago, as well as the poster of Gabor's message to rdevel) hit that