Good morning. I am interested in downloading R. I would appreciate if you can help me with the following questions, please. 1. Is R free, or I have to pay for support/maintenance, or it depends on the version? Is there a paid version? 2. How safe is it to work with data using R? Is there any risk that someone else can have access to the information? Thanks in advance for your attention and for any help you can provide me. Silvia Espinoza [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
You can get details at http://www.r-project.org/ But to answer your question: Yes it is free On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Silvia Espinoza <silesmek@gmail.com> wrote:> Good morning. I am interested in downloading R. I would appreciate if you > can help me with the following questions, please. > > 1. Is R free, or I have to pay for support/maintenance, or it depends > on the version? Is there a paid version? > > 2. How safe is it to work with data using R? Is there any risk that > someone else can have access to the information? > > Thanks in advance for your attention and for any help you can provide me. > > Silvia Espinoza > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > 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. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Ye Lin <yelin at lbl.gov> wrote:> You can get details at http://www.r-project.org/ > > But to answer your question: Yes it is freeBut there is also a paid version. Send me $1000 and I will send you R on a USB stick, complete with all the source code. Seriously, other companies do supply support and extensions for R at a cost, and although I can legally sell you a copy of R for $1000 nobody bothers charging for R because the license can't stop you giving your copy away. As for your security/data safety question, well your operating system is probably the weaker link in that chain. However if you are running R in a client-server fashion then you should make sure the data is encrypted - and then the weakest link is possession of the private half of the encryption key, which is your responsibility. Barry
On Nov 6, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Silvia Espinoza <silesmek at gmail.com> wrote:> Good morning. I am interested in downloading R. I would appreciate if you > can help me with the following questions, please. > > 1. Is R free, or I have to pay for support/maintenance, or it depends > on the version? Is there a paid version? >Yes, it is free, although there are commercial versions of R available, if you decide that you do need/want commercial support. Some additional info on commercial versions here: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#What-is-R_002dplus_003f None of this has any effect on your ability to use R in a commercial setting, though there are some CRAN packages that do have such limitations: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Can-I-use-R-for-commercial-purposes_003f> 2. How safe is it to work with data using R? Is there any risk that > someone else can have access to the information?That is outside of the scope of R and is dependent upon the security of the computer system(s) and possibly networks, upon and over which R is running and where your data is stored and managed. Regards, Marc Schwartz> Thanks in advance for your attention and for any help you can provide me. > > Silvia Espinoza