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[Liviu Andronic]

On 1/19/10, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>  In a similar vein, has anyone ever put any 'phone home' code in a
>  package, so that authors can track usage? Something in the package
>  startup code that pings a logging server, for example?
>
>   Yes I know doing such a thing without telling the user and giving
>  them an opt-out is evil.
>
Why would this be evil? For R, for example? I've already read some
objections to this on r-help, but I'm not sure I understand the
reasons. As long as the 'ping' happens once, at first start,
anonymously, and requires confirmation from the user, I do not see an
issue with the behaviour.

Regards
Liviu