is it possible to use renjin within rstudio

Question

I wanted to try out a faster version of R in Windows. pqR / Riposte do not have a Windows version. Renjin's website had a Renjin Studio GUI (for all platforms), which opens up a console where I can run R commands but that's not too useful. I understand that Renjin is still under development, but I want to ask: is it possible to use Renjin within RStudio, i.e. within RStudio set the "R Version" to Renjin?

Answer 1

Not yet! RStudio is unfortunately but probably necessarily bound to specifically the GNU R shared library and GNU R's C API. Hacking together a quick fork of RStudio that talks to Renjin as a proof of concept is something that's probably a good weekend project, but unfortunately one among many good weekend projects...