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 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 > said it would be alright' is going to convince your IT department of the > harmlessness of R? > Cheers, > Katharina. > > -- > > Dr Katharina Fritsch B.Sc. M.Sc. 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