I have not viewed this video yet, but it comes from a good friend. There is a substantial effort at Microsoft to better integrate the R programming language and their flagship database produce, SQL Server.
Nagaraj Venkatesan. R and SQL Server 2016. Recorded and posted on the SQL Presented December 2016 and posted on the SQL Server Central blog. Available in html format
You can find an earlier version of this page on my blog.