Hi, Shaun:
I suggest you also check the Wikipedia article on "R (programming
language)":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)
That article has 115 numbered "References" that provide more
information. You don't have to believe anything you read anywhere.
However you many know that almost anyone can change almost anything on
Wikipedia. What stays tends to be written from a neutral point of view
citing credible sources. Many Wikipedia articles contain sections on
controveries, etc. I don't find anything like that in this article,
with good reason.
Hope this helps.
Spencer Graves
On 8/17/23 11:48 AM, Bert Gunter wrote:
Incidentally, you might be interested in the banner shown when R starts up:
"R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY."
I believe this is standard for open source software (upon which a lot of
organizations depend). In any case, that might be the most definitive and
"official" answer you can get.
Bert
On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 9:17 AM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote:
This is a volunteer Help list for users of R, which is open source, so you
can see all its code. I can answer no to your questions, unless you are
using one of R's innumerable packages that interacts with the internet and
to which the user may give personal information to enable the desired
functionality (logins, etc.). But of course how do you know that I am not
some malevolent agent or organization wishing to mislead you for my own
nefarious purposes?
Cheers,
Bert
On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 8:37 AM Shaun Parr <portvale...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
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Hi there,
My name is Shaun and I work in an organisation where one of our users
wishes to install the R software and our process is to assess the safety of
anyone software prior to authorisation. I can’t seem to locate all the
information that we require on the webpage, so could someone kindly advise
me of the following information please?
1. Please can you confirm what user information the software collects
(E.g. Name, password, e-mail address, any Personally Identifiable
Information etc)?
2. If any is collected, please can you confirm if the information
collected by the software stays locally on the device or if it is
transferred anywhere. If it is transferred, could you please advise where
it is transferred to (E.g. your own servers, or a third party data centre
such as Amazon Web Services or Azure)?
3. Are there any third-party components installed within the software
and, if so, are these also kept up-to-date?
If you could kindly advise this information, it would be really
appreciated, thank you 😊
Shaun
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