I\'m wondering about the best way to deploy R. Matlab has the \"matlab compiler\" (MCR). There has been discussion about something similar in the past for R that would com
I had forgotten about the Rice project, it has been a while. I think the operational term here is stated at the top of the project page: Last Updated 3/8/06.
And we all know R changes a lot. So I have only the standard few pointers for you:
In short: there is no way have what you desire specific ways to compile and deploy R code without installing R in advance. Sorry.
Edit/Update (April 2011): Luke's new compiler
package will be part of R 2.13.0 (to be released April 2011) but not 'activated' by default which is expected for R 2.14.0 expected for October 2011.
Edit/Update (December 2011): Prof Tierney just release a massive 100+ page paper on the byte-code compiler.