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...y that R allows execution of arbitrary shell commands, they will then disallow the use of R (SAS and Stata are our other optiona). It might be useful to be able to give them options for securing R. Possibly useful information: * the office allows use of SAS (and Stata, MLWiN, etc.) but uses the NOXCMD specification to prevent shell access from within SAS. They also disallow access to the Windows shell (in the current configuration, shell() works fine from within R, but we think this may have escaped their notice ...) The workstations have no access to external networks, nor to external media (th...