It's difficult to provide much security from within R due to the extreme difficulty of restricting potentially dangerous activities - and an experienced R user can usually get around any arbitrary restrictions you put it. A more general technique is to make sure that the user running the rpad process has minimal security access (good practice anyway).
Hadley On 10/23/07, Iqbal Jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings: > > I am looking at using Rpad but concerned about security and access to files > on our server. > Any suggestions/pointers/experiences from the list would be very helpful. > > Iqbal Jamal > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-GUI mailing list > R-SIG-GUI@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui > -- http://had.co.nz/ _______________________________________________ R-SIG-GUI mailing list R-SIG-GUI@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui
