Re: [Rd] virus and malicious code

2012-08-06 Thread Bert Gunter
... and note additionally, as per section 1.5.3, "Windows External Software" of the "Writing R Extensions" manual: "Note that CRAN does not accept submissions of precompiled binaries due to security concerns,and does not allow binary executables in source packages." -- Cheers, Bert On Mon, Aug 6

Re: [Rd] virus and malicious code

2012-08-06 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 06.08.2012 15:09, David L Lorenz wrote: Hi, A question has come up within a user group about the possibility of viruses or other malicious code being embedded within any package served from CRAN. How much checking is done to guard against this? Of course, CRAN cannot guarantee that pack

[Rd] virus and malicious code

2012-08-06 Thread David L Lorenz
Hi, A question has come up within a user group about the possibility of viruses or other malicious code being embedded within any package served from CRAN. How much checking is done to guard against this? I do not expect any kind of response about picking up R code from any other source, like