R help - Dec 2024 - Confirmation of no Electronic Communication functionality

Hi,

I am trying to download R version 3.6.1 onto my company computer and need an
email confirming that r does not include any electronic communication
functionality within the program.

Thank you very much!

Best,
Edward Woo


Edward Woo
Municipals Securities Group
Jefferies LLC
520 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10022
Phone: 212-708-2958
ewoo at jefferies.com<mailto:ewoo at jefferies.com>


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Dear Edward Woo,

Welcome to R-help!

? Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:24:18 +0000
Edward Woo via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> ?????:
> need an email confirming that r does not include any electronic
> communication functionality within the program
Could you please provide a definition of electronic communication
functionality? (For example, does download.file() or install.packages()
count as one?)

There may be some documents useful for you at
<https://www.r-project.org/certification.html>.

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan

Hi Edward,

R can indeed initiate electronic communication, e.g. by downloading new
libraries (`install.packages()`). You may be best off using a container.

Steven

On Fri, Dec 13, 2024, 10:25?AM Edward Woo via R-help <r-help at
r-project.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to download R version 3.6.1 onto my company computer and need
> an email confirming that r does not include any electronic communication
> functionality within the program.
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Best,
> Edward Woo
>
>
> Edward Woo
> Municipals Securities Group
> Jefferies LLC
> 520 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor
> New York, NY 10022
> Phone: 212-708-2958
> ewoo at jefferies.com<mailto:ewoo at jefferies.com>
>
>
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R is a programming language. If you program it to communicate, it will. Also, it
is designed to work with user-contributed packages of code... the process of
downloading the packages is communication, and the downloaded packages may
communicate if you invoke them (that is often why they are created).

You may need a more nuanced view of software restrictions if you have this
discussion about using R with your IT people than "has no electronic
communication functionality". For example, the code is open-source... if
there is untrusted behavior then it can be seen in the source code.

On December 13, 2024 6:24:18 AM PST, Edward Woo via R-help <r-help at
r-project.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to download R version 3.6.1 onto my company computer and need an
email confirming that r does not include any electronic communication
functionality within the program.
>
>Thank you very much!
>
>Best,
>Edward Woo
>
>
>Edward Woo
>Municipals Securities Group
>Jefferies LLC
>520 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor
>New York, NY 10022
>Phone: 212-708-2958
>ewoo at jefferies.com<mailto:ewoo at jefferies.com>
>
>
>Jefferies archives and monitors outgoing and incoming e-mail. The contents
of this email, including any attachments, are confidential to the ordinary user
of the email address to which it was addressed. If you are not the addressee of
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of it in any form whatsoever. This email may be produced at the request of
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liability for any errors or omissions arising as a result of transmission. Use
by other than intended recipients is prohibited.
>
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>
>______________________________________________
>R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
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>PLEASE do read the posting guide
https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
-- 
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