Friends:
It’s me again, and you will probably not like what I am about to say. Well, some of you. 
After the Oxford study-a-thon, Henry and Patrick came to me and said that we have to allow the big R server touching the data install packages with the studies. Well, that is not going to happen. The security folks will not allow some code (read: virus) to be downloaded at run-time. Code has to be installed and checked. The fact that some dude downloads it does not help. What is Henry supposed to do? Reverse engineer the code to make sure it is kosher? And when we deploy it through ATLAS - where is the dude? And this is true for a US company. In Germany, France, China - don’t even think about it.
We need to have packages that can be preinstalled, and studies have to be configurations (through JSON or some other mechanism) of these preinstalled packages.
Or is there a compromise possible?