Well, of course it isn't true -- no piece of software is 'as safe as
possible'. I think some IT managers would prefer not to run any OSes on
their machines -- now, that is pretty safe (especially if they are then
switched off to say energy).
You haven't told us your OS -- and that usually means it is Windows (or
Mac OS). A reasonable question then is 'is R as safe than Windows'.
However when you start R it says
R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
so you are not going to get any warranty about this. But it seems faintly
ludicrous to ask if R is safe if you run an unsafe OS -- R is as safe as
the system calls it uses (and any others you manage to run via exploits,
although I am unaware of known exploits -- the few reports have been on
at-the-time obsolete versions of R). So just don't actually run R in an
admnistrator account.
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Hanek Martin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to convince our IT Manager that R is as safe as possible
> from IT security point of view - could you point me to something on the
> web / some reasons for why this is true? I do not think he has a
> specific concern but does not know the software and would like to
> understand the security implications.
But surely that is his job! Our Computing Manager certainly has it in his
job description -- and he does allow R on our systems (owned by
non-administrator accounts).
> Thanks in advance
>
> Best Regards
> Martin Hanek
> Actuarial Analyst
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