The section I'm working in runs a facility for sensitive research data
(https://www.uio.no/english/services/it/research/sensitive-data/). Our
users use R (along with other analysis software). We don't consider R
safe or unsafe, but have designed the services so that it should not be
possible (or
> If I install R on my work network computer, will the data ever leave our
> network?
As far as I know, if you run R locally (and not, say, on an amazon EC2
instance) your data - indeed anything about you or your machine - will only
leave your desktop if you download and run an R package that
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" <
r-help@r-project.org> wrote:
> Hiya,
> I work in a very security
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
Hello Laurence.
Taking a pragmatic approach.
If the data is so valuable and secret but also needs some analysis in R,
here is suggested steps to minimise security risks.
1. Plan the analysis up front, what exactly what you want and the outcomes.
2. Take a laptop with Internet, install R and all
On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Jan van der Laan wrote:
> You can also inadvertently transmit data to the internet using a package
> without being obviously 'stupid', e.g. by using a package that uses an
> external service for data processing. For example, some javascript
> visualisation libs can
You can also inadvertently transmit data to the internet using a package
without being obviously 'stupid', e.g. by using a package that uses an
external service for data processing. For example, some javascript
visualisation libs can do that (not sure if those wrapped in R-packages
do), or,
I can not agree more, Barry. Very nicely put.
Rainer
> On 8 Aug 2018, at 18:10, Barry Rowlingson
> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 4:09 PM, Laurence Clark
> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I want to download R and use it for work purposes. I hope to use it to
>> analyse very sensitive data
This can likely be answered for R itself, but R itself (without additional
packages) is very limited. As soon as you install packages, it all depends on
the package you install and if you trust the authors of these packages.
As far as I know, there is no code checking for security on CRAN
I consider R to be secure. It is possible, but very unlikely, that there
are some back door traps in R where somebody could access your data.
There is no software that is 100% secure and R is not 100% secure.
Bob
On 8/8/2018 11:09 AM, Laurence Clark wrote:
Hello all,
I want to download R
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, Laurence Clark wrote:
I want to download R and use it for work purposes. I hope to use it to
analyse very sensitive data from our clients.
Laurence,
Good choice.
My question is:
If I install R on my work network computer, will the data ever leave our
network? I need
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 4:09 PM, Laurence Clark
wrote:
> 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
>
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