A Cyclades Service Engine Nyxlet/service that hosts *R as a service*. R is a popular open source project for statistical computing, you can read more about it link:http://www.r-project.org[here]. The combination of R, supporting R libraries and Cyclades SOA allows for a horizontally scalable distributed R deployment as a service that is accessible via RESTful, messaging and custom transport implementations in Cyclades SOA.