See these two recent posts: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-May/240669.html https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-June/240901.html Nothing new since then, but the logical model for R would be a client/server approach, along the lines of what you reference for MATLAB or what has been done for Wolfram|Alpha.
Indeed. I love my iPhone, but the restrictions placed on it by Apple are a shameful waste of a perfectly good UNIX operating system. Same for the iPad. I recently got bitten by the desire to try something completely different in the area of programming languages and have been learning Erlang. After three days of work I have nearly completed a web server that can accept console input over a HTML 5 WebSocket, pipe the command to Simon's Rserve and then return the results. I am especially excited about this side project as the Erlang backbone should allow the whole system to be scaled across multiple servers to handle large volumes of demand. -Charlie