On 30 April 2018 at 23:54, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
| Hi Dirk,
| 
| On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 04:33:48PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > There is no GUI in R on
| > Linux (there used to be a Gnome1/Gtk one a loooong time ago).
| 
| Ah, ok. I wasn't aware of that.
| 
| Even if we'd build some kind of GUI, tricking a user into manually pasting
| an overly long string into a specific input box is quite a stretch for
| labelling a bug a security issue....

Agreed.

(But I passed it on upstream as it wasn't clear whether the R Core team had
been reached or not.)
 
| I'll simply go ahead and close this, then. Thanks for the quick followup.

Perfect, thanks -- that is the right call here.

Dirk

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