[R] security using R at work

[john matthew]

Hi Katherina.
Good point you make. What makes your IT department happy with the use of R
studio server? What are the safe packages?

Can I trust your answer? :)
John.



On 9 Aug 2018 10:38, "Fritsch, Katharina (NNL) via R-help" <
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> Hiya,
> I work in a very security conscious organisation and we happily use R. The
> average user can only use R via RStudio Server, with a limited number of
> packages available, so that adds an additional level of control.
> That said, are you sure that the sentence 'a few people on a mailing list
> said it would be alright' is going to convince your IT department of the
> harmlessness of R?
> Cheers,
> Katharina.
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> Subject: [R] security using R at work
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> Hello all,
>
> I want to download R and use it for work purposes. I hope to use it to
> analyse very sensitive data from our clients.
>
> My question is:
>
> If I install R on my work network computer, will the data ever leave our
> network? I need to know if the data goes anywhere other than our network,
> because this could compromise it's security. Is there is any chance the
> data could go to a server owned by 'R' or anything else that's not
> immediately obvious, but constitutes the data leaving our network?
>
> Thank you
>
> Laurence
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