Potential Project: Documentation on Adding a Language to Cloud Foundry, with R as the Test Case

Since I'm the one who wants this the most, specifically the R language, I'm going to take on as much of this as I can, given that I don't know the internals of Cloud Foundry. @dukeleto is also interested. I think this community is the place to build this. Potential issues:

1. The version of R in the Lucid Lynx repositories a micro-cloud sees is 2.10. This is over two years old, and is missing at least one major advance - the bytecode compiler. I personally run a version of R that's patched more or less daily, but for a server, that's out of the question. The latest stable release is 2.15.0.

2. R now has libraries to talk to Redis, MongoDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL. However, not all of these have been packaged for Debian/Ubuntu. That would need to be done; mixing "r-cran" packages from the repositories and packages installed from source is risky. The last time I looked, Dirk Eddelbuettel was still doing the CRAN-to-Debian packaging. I asked him a few months back if he had any automation and he said, "Not really." I have an account on the OpenSUSE Build Service, which can package code for most distros including Ubuntu.