Interesting example of wrapping R up into an exposed ODATA layer out of SAP HANA.
http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana/blog/2013/10/08/creating-an-odata-service-using-r
How about using SQL in R? Lubridate'ing? Random Forests?
http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/10-R-packages-I-wish-I-knew-about-earlier.html
Exporting to Excel? Plus installing a bunch of other packages in a single shot?
https://gist.github.com/bearloga/10988512