[R] R for commercial use

[Kjetil Halvorsen]

well, R includes a Turing-complete programming language, so I guess It
really is difficult to answer NO to any of this questions?
They do not seem very precise.

Kjetil

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:15 AM, mlell08 <mlell08 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 24.09.2012 16:21, Zastko,Samuel ALB co-mw wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> want to use R in our company but have to complete an intern questionnaire first. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!
>> Here the questions I’m not sure about:
>> 1.      Is R a Clientsoftware / Serversoftware / Systemsoftware?
> This is a strange choice. what would you answer for e.g. Excel??
> It's most certainly no Server.
> It's not a Client, because there is no "R-Server". But R can establish
> connections to several Server Types, for example to download data. R
> Packages can extend R's funcionality
> What's "Systemsoftware"??
>
>> 2.      Does R need a “chellenge-response” treatment for activation?
> Dunno what "challenge-response" is. But R is open-souce, no activatoin
> required.
>> 3.      Is R proxy-able?
> HTTP-Proxying seems to work, google "GNU R proxy" and see
> <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#The-Internet-download-functions-fail_002e>
>
>> 4.      Is the personalised WINDOWS-NTLM-authorization at ISA-proxy possible?
> Don' know. But you can run R without any changes to a Windows system,
> like registry entrys and such. Copy the folder and execute R.exe
>> 5.      Are any exceptions for virus scanner needed? If yes, which ones?
> No.
>> 6.      Does R changes system files or folders? (e.g. system32, registry). If yes, which ones?
> No.
>
> Regards,
> Moritz
>
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