I work in a US government office, where regular computer users are not allowed Admin access to their computers, and all software must go through an extensive evaluation to be approved for installation and use.  Several of us in my office would greatly benefit from R, so I'd like to request that it go through the approval process.  Does anyone out there have any experience or advice to share?

My guess is that we may run into problems due to R being open-source, leading to a potential perception that the code might be poorly controlled. This could be further complicated by the need for downloading additional open-source packages.  At present, I am not aware of any open source software that has passed through the approval process, though I am also not aware of any policy against open-source.

Thanks!
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Eric Peterson, Ph.D.
Data Steward
Trinity River Restoration Program
(contracted through SAIC)
530-623-1810
http://www.trrp.net
http://www.saic.com


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