Re: [R] Confirmation of no Electronic Communication functionality

2024-12-13 Thread Steven Ellis
Hi Edward, R can indeed initiate electronic communication, e.g. by downloading new libraries (`install.packages()`). You may be best off using a container. Steven On Fri, Dec 13, 2024, 10:25 AM Edward Woo via R-help wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to download R version 3.6.1 onto my company compu

Re: [R] Confirmation of no Electronic Communication functionality

2024-12-13 Thread Ben Bolker
This reminds me a little bit of working in a secure data center (no external network connections from any of the workstations) where the security policy did not allow shell access, but did allow R (disallowing it would have crippled half of the projects using the data center). I didn't go ou

Re: [R] Confirmation of no Electronic Communication functionality

2024-12-13 Thread Sergei Ko
I suspect it might be relevant for RStudio, but definitely not for pure R. On top of that you can just copy R to a flash drive or any accessible folder. It will work. Regards, Sergiy On Fri, 13 Dec 2024, 15:56 Bert Gunter, wrote: > Thanks, Ivan. Exactly my reaction. > > And as a Turing complete

Re: [R] Confirmation of no Electronic Communication functionality

2024-12-13 Thread Marc Schwartz via R-help
Hi, In addition to the replies that you have already received, it is reasonable to question why you wish to download a version of R that is over 5 years old. Version 3.6.1 was released in July of 2019. If you are concerned about security, which is going to be a scenario specific discussion, as

Re: [R] Confirmation of no Electronic Communication functionality

2024-12-13 Thread Bert Gunter
Thanks, Ivan. Exactly my reaction. And as a Turing complete language, R allows one to do anything in R -- including writing an email package that does email directly from R: see package emayili . Indeed, I think one would find it difficult to find *any* software that does not interact with the in

Re: [R] Confirmation of no Electronic Communication functionality

2024-12-13 Thread Jeff Newmiller via R-help
R is a programming language. If you program it to communicate, it will. Also, it is designed to work with user-contributed packages of code... the process of downloading the packages is communication, and the downloaded packages may communicate if you invoke them (that is often why they are crea

Re: [R] Confirmation of no Electronic Communication functionality

2024-12-13 Thread Ivan Krylov via R-help
Dear Edward Woo, Welcome to R-help! В Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:24:18 + Edward Woo via R-help пишет: > need an email confirming that r does not include any electronic > communication functionality within the program Could you please provide a definition of electronic communication functionality?

[R] Confirmation of no Electronic Communication functionality

2024-12-13 Thread Edward Woo via R-help
Hi, I am trying to download R version 3.6.1 onto my company computer and need an email confirming that r does not include any electronic communication functionality within the program. Thank you very much! Best, Edward Woo Edward Woo Municipals Securities Group Jefferies LLC 520 Madison Aven