dear members,
I am a stock trader. I am using R for my research.
I want to service my laptop, wherein resides all my R code, which, for obvious
reasons, has to be secured. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate.
I cannot encrypt the R data by Bitdefender, as it encrypts the entire drive. I
anyway need to give the key when the system, if at all, gets locked when
servicing.
My cousin suggested backing up the data and deleting that data in the laptop
when giving it for servicing. How do you back up the R data? What is the file
name that contains all the workspace in windows 7? .RHistory only contains the
previous commands. Can I delete only all the data/code without deleting the R
GUI? The extreme option would be to delete the whole of installed R GUI, after
backing up the workspace. Some other way to secure the data/code?
I've tried using Backup and sync by google, but that is very cumbersome.
Please help.
thanking you,
Yours sincerely,
AKSHAY M KULKARNI
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R does not save any data you give it unless you explicitly tell it to. See ?save ?write.table, etc. Also, any good tutorial. 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, Oct 26, 2020 at 7:18 AM akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 at hotmail.com> wrote:> dear members, > I am a stock trader. I am using R for my > research. > > I want to service my laptop, wherein resides all my R code, which, for > obvious reasons, has to be secured. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate. > > I cannot encrypt the R data by Bitdefender, as it encrypts the entire > drive. I anyway need to give the key when the system, if at all, gets > locked when servicing. > > My cousin suggested backing up the data and deleting that data in the > laptop when giving it for servicing. How do you back up the R data? What is > the file name that contains all the workspace in windows 7? .RHistory only > contains the previous commands. Can I delete only all the data/code without > deleting the R GUI? The extreme option would be to delete the whole of > installed R GUI, after backing up the workspace. Some other way to secure > the data/code? > > I've tried using Backup and sync by google, but that is very cumbersome. > > Please help. > > thanking you, > Yours sincerely, > AKSHAY M KULKARNI > > [ > https://ipmcdn.avast.com/images/icons/icon-envelope-tick-round-orange-animated-no-repeat-v1.gif > ]< > https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> > Virus-free. www.avast.com< > https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail > > > > [[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. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On 10/26/20 7:17 AM, akshay kulkarni wrote:> dear members, > I am a stock trader. I am using R for my research. > > I want to service my laptop, wherein resides all my R code, which, for obvious reasons, has to be secured. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate. > > I cannot encrypt the R data by Bitdefender, as it encrypts the entire drive.Use a file encryption program or create an an encrypted directory to store your sensitive files. Veracrypt is a widely used cross platform solution. I was under the impression that Windoze 7 was now inherently insecure because it is past end-of-maintenance life? and there are many unpatched security holes.> I anyway need to give the key when the system, if at all, gets locked when servicing. > > My cousin suggested backing up the data and deleting that data in the laptop when giving it for servicing. How do you back up the R data?> What is the file name that contains all the workspace in windows 7?.Rdata> .RHistory only contains the previous commands. Can I delete only all the data/code without deleting the R GUI?Yes. Many people recommend not using the .Rdata mechanism at all, and instead maintaining a record of how the session proceeded along with? a bundle of the input data or at least? those portions that were successful in your eyes.> The extreme option would be to delete the whole of installed R GUI, after backing up the workspace. Some other way to secure the data/code?.Rdata is only a file. You could sorre it in encrypted form with Veracrypt.> > I've tried using Backup and sync by google, but that is very cumbersome. > > Please help. > > thanking you, > Yours sincerely, > AKSHAY M KULKARNI > > snipped HTML > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]You should learn to post in plain text. -- David.
Do you make regular backups? If not, this should push you into such a routine. One approach is to use an external drive. External drives are not expensive and can typically have plenty of room to hold all your code and data. Just before having your computer serviced, copy your code and data onto the external drive. Erase your sensitive data from your computer and get it serviced. By the way, you can make the backup effort easier by organizing all your code and data into a directory tree, so that you just do a recursive copy of the root folder onto the backup system and you are done. (i.e. a simple command. Depending on the amount of data to be copied this may take some time to complete.) HTH, Eric On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 6:41 PM David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:> > On 10/26/20 7:17 AM, akshay kulkarni wrote: > > dear members, > > I am a stock trader. I am using R for my > research. > > > > I want to service my laptop, wherein resides all my R code, which, for > obvious reasons, has to be secured. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate. > > > > I cannot encrypt the R data by Bitdefender, as it encrypts the entire > drive. > Use a file encryption program or create an an encrypted directory to > store your sensitive files. Veracrypt is a widely used cross platform > solution. I was under the impression that Windoze 7 was now inherently > insecure because it is past end-of-maintenance life and there are many > unpatched security holes. > > I anyway need to give the key when the system, if at all, gets locked > when servicing. > > > > My cousin suggested backing up the data and deleting that data in the > laptop when giving it for servicing. How do you back up the R data? > > > What is the file name that contains all the workspace in windows 7? > .Rdata > > .RHistory only contains the previous commands. Can I delete only all the > data/code without deleting the R GUI? > Yes. Many people recommend not using the .Rdata mechanism at all, and > instead maintaining a record of how the session proceeded along with a > bundle of the input data or at least those portions that were > successful in your eyes. > > The extreme option would be to delete the whole of installed R GUI, > after backing up the workspace. Some other way to secure the data/code? > .Rdata is only a file. You could sorre it in encrypted form with Veracrypt. > > > > I've tried using Backup and sync by google, but that is very cumbersome. > > > > Please help. > > > > thanking you, > > Yours sincerely, > > AKSHAY M KULKARNI > > > > snipped HTML > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > You should learn to post in plain text. > > -- > > David. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Hi Above what you were suggested, your commands could be stored in .RHistory and your data in .RData files if you end quit your session with save option "yes". Either interactively or programmatically. Cheers Petr> -----Original Message----- > From: R-help <r-help-bounces at r-project.org> On Behalf Of akshay kulkarni > Sent: Monday, October 26, 2020 3:18 PM > To: R help Mailing list <r-help at r-project.org> > Subject: [R] securing R code.... > > dear members, > I am a stock trader. I am using R for myresearch.> > I want to service my laptop, wherein resides all my R code, which, for > obvious reasons, has to be secured. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate. > > I cannot encrypt the R data by Bitdefender, as it encrypts the entiredrive. I> anyway need to give the key when the system, if at all, gets locked when > servicing. > > My cousin suggested backing up the data and deleting that data in thelaptop> when giving it for servicing. How do you back up the R data? What is thefile> name that contains all the workspace in windows 7? .RHistory only contains > the previous commands. Can I delete only all the data/code withoutdeleting> the R GUI? The extreme option would be to delete the whole of installed R > GUI, after backing up the workspace. Some other way to secure the > data/code? > > I've tried using Backup and sync by google, but that is very cumbersome. > > Please help. > > thanking you, > Yours sincerely, > AKSHAY M KULKARNI > > [https://ipmcdn.avast.com/images/icons/icon-envelope-tick-round-orange- > animated-no-repeat-v1.gif]<https://www.avast.com/sig- > email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig- > email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. > www.avast.com<https://www.avast.com/sig- > email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig- > email&utm_content=webmail> > > [[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.