R as a scripting engine

On 11 January 2009 at 20:18, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
| Those of you tracking R development will have noticed that we are 
| moving towards using R as a scripting engine.
[...]
| Reasons:
| 
| - it is platform-independent and needs no other tools installed.
[...]
| - it is fast.
[...]

Indeed.  I really like working with r scripts. 

And littler by Horner and Eddelbuettel is faster than Rscript -- see eg the
scripts tests/timing.sh and tests/timing2.sh in the SVN archive / littler
tarballs (and the results below for illustration).   

We should still appreciate it you could finally acknowledge existence of
littler it in the R / Rscript documentation.   You are not doing users any
service by pretending it doesn't exist.