I spoke to someone in the military who did some investigation. This is his response
>> 1. I'm sorry that I don't have anything good to report. The military is >> cautious with it's networks and I'm no longer able to use R at work. I >> don't know anything about this registry issue but the show stopper for me >> even trying to get R on the military network is CRAN. All that r-project >> checks on contributed applications is if they load (or compile as >> necessary) >> cross-platform. I could make an argument for the security of the Core >> functionality of R but not for the contributed packages. On 5/8/12, Paul Martin <pamar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > Kirtland Air Force Base has denied approval for the use of R on its > Windows network. Some of their objections seem a bit strange, but some > appear to be legitimate. In particular, they have detected registry > "vulnerabilities" > which are detailed in the attachment. > I know nothing about Windows registry vulnerabilities. If any of these > issues are > legitimate concerns, I would like to see them fixed for everyone's > benefit. > I would > appreciate a referral to the appropriate forum for this information. I > am > willing > to assist in getting questions answered and gathering additional > information. > Thank you, > Paul Martin > Air Force Research Laboratory > Kirtland Air Force Base > Albuquerque, New Mexico > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.