Hello. At the company I work for, I recently requested having R loaded onto my desktop and some of my colleagues. My company's IT/Security groups are having trouble assessing whether R software meets their standards. Can anyone point me to a source where i can read about how R uses data? does it store the data somewhere? Does data ever actually leave the company's environment? etc...? Thanks. Sean
As a starting point for answering this question, you might sear Google for "The RAppArmor Package: Enforcing Security Policies in R Using Dynamic Sandboxing on Linux" kw On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 4:01 PM, <seanstclair@verizon.net> wrote:> > Hello. At the company I work for, I recently requested having R loaded > onto > my desktop and some of my colleagues. > > My company's IT/Security groups are having trouble assessing whether R > software meets their standards. > > Can anyone point me to a source where i can read about how R uses data? > does > it store the data somewhere? Does data ever actually leave the > company's > environment? etc...? > > Thanks. > Sean > ______________________________________________ > 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. >-- Kevin Wright [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
See below -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory On 11/11/13 2:01 PM, "seanstclair at verizon.net" <seanstclair at verizon.net> wrote:> > Hello. At the company I work for, I recently requested having R >loaded onto > my desktop and some of my colleagues. > > My company's IT/Security groups are having trouble assessing whether R > software meets their standards. > > Can anyone point me to a source where i can read about how R uses data?I would start by downloading "An Introduction to R" from CRAN and searching on "save" and ".RData".> does > it store the data somewhere?Yes. In memory to start, and optionally to disk, normally somewhere in the user's home directory or working directory.> Does data ever actually leave the company's > environment?Not unless the user does something explicit to make it happen.> etc...?No less secure than, say, MS Excel, I would think. Others with a deeper understanding than I may point out exceptions or special cases worth knowing about ... I hope.> > Thanks. > Sean >______________________________________________ >R-help at 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.