... 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, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > > > 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 packages are free of malicious code, > otherwise manual inspection of the code of almost 4000 packages with dozens > of updates and new submissions a day would be necessary. > > CRAN does some checks on the precompiled binaries for viruses, but again > cannot give guarantees. Please use the normal precautions with downloaded > executables. > > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > >> I do not >> expect any kind of response about picking up R code from any other source, >> like gitHub. Thanks. > > > >> Dave >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
