R help - Feb 2019 - R Software

Hello,

My name is Evan Lindenberger and I work at the Johnson & Wales information
security office. We received a request for R Software, but I have a few
questions before we start using R, such as:

- What information does R collect?
- Does the R Foundation have a written information security policy (WISP)?
- Is R compliant with GDPR and ADA?

If someone could get back to me, that would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

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Hello,

I do not speak for the R Foundation but I believe you are not aware that 
R is a computer language for statistics biostatistics and (scientific) 
graphics.

- R itself does not collect data.
- Security policies are left to the users.
- You can program whatever you want since R is Turing equivalent, GDPR 
or ADA compliant or not. It's up to the users/developers to comply to 
laws. (I hope they do.)

Regarding this, R is pretty much the same as, for instance, C, C++, 
Fortran, etc. And just like those languages R is used by companies and 
other institutions, government or private, that enforce strong security 
policies.


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

?s 17:32 de 18/02/2019, Evan Lindenberger escreveu:
> Hello,
> 
> My name is Evan Lindenberger and I work at the Johnson & Wales
information security office. We received a request for R Software, but I have a
few questions before we start using R, such as:
> 
> - What information does R collect?
> - Does the R Foundation have a written information security policy (WISP)?
> - Is R compliant with GDPR and ADA?
> 
> If someone could get back to me, that would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>

To add to what Rui said, go here:
https://www.r-project.org/

Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 2:11 PM Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas at sapo.pt>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I do not speak for the R Foundation but I believe you are not aware that
> R is a computer language for statistics biostatistics and (scientific)
> graphics.
>
> - R itself does not collect data.
> - Security policies are left to the users.
> - You can program whatever you want since R is Turing equivalent, GDPR
> or ADA compliant or not. It's up to the users/developers to comply to
> laws. (I hope they do.)
>
> Regarding this, R is pretty much the same as, for instance, C, C++,
> Fortran, etc. And just like those languages R is used by companies and
> other institutions, government or private, that enforce strong security
> policies.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> ?s 17:32 de 18/02/2019, Evan Lindenberger escreveu:
> > Hello,
> >
> > My name is Evan Lindenberger and I work at the Johnson & Wales
> information security office. We received a request for R Software, but I
> have a few questions before we start using R, such as:
> >
> > - What information does R collect?
> > - Does the R Foundation have a written information security policy
> (WISP)?
> > - Is R compliant with GDPR and ADA?
> >
> > If someone could get back to me, that would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >       [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> >
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> > PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
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