Re: [Rd] locking down R

2013-05-21 Thread Davide Rambaldi
Is like comma 22: - They hire you to use a console and you will be fired if you use a console! I am italian, and for us, this kind of contradictions are normal ... - Davide Rambaldi, PhD. - IE

Re: [Rd] locking down R

2013-05-20 Thread Tim Triche, Jr.
short of running everything in a VM, I'd have to guess you're hosed... I don't understand how an operating system with internals as opaque as Windows (NT/2000/beyond, not just the old DOS-based garbage) could ever be considered secure for intensive computation, but that seems beside the point. Yo

Re: [Rd] locking down R

2013-05-20 Thread Ben Bolker
On 13-05-19 06:08 PM, R. Michael Weylandt wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: >> >> Is anyone on this list aware of discussions about locking down/securing R? >> >> My colleagues and I are working with health statistics in an office >> that disallows many useful tools (

Re: [Rd] locking down R

2013-05-20 Thread Ben Bolker
On 13-05-20 04:42 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: >> >> The workstations have no access to external networks, >> nor to external media (thumb drives etc.) [information transfer to the >> outside world is via shared drives that can be accessed by >>

Re: [Rd] locking down R

2013-05-20 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: > >The workstations have no access to external networks, > nor to external media (thumb drives etc.) [information transfer to the > outside world is via shared drives that can be accessed by > administrators with network access]. > > * I stipulate

Re: [Rd] locking down R

2013-05-19 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: > > Is anyone on this list aware of discussions about locking down/securing R? > > My colleagues and I are working with health statistics in an office > that disallows many useful tools (e.g. emacs, vim, perl, make) on the > grounds that they

[Rd] locking down R

2013-05-19 Thread Ben Bolker
Is anyone on this list aware of discussions about locking down/securing R? My colleagues and I are working with health statistics in an office that disallows many useful tools (e.g. emacs, vim, perl, make) on the grounds that they represent a security risk. We are considering pushing back, b