Charity There is OFTEN confusion what we mean when we say "R".
R is effectively a single bit of software with a ton of other bits of software as optional extras. You might think of some of those optional extras like apps on a phone. You'd say you have a phone when you can open the box and power it on. But you might add say "Spotify" app to it. That will then be downloading the songs. And inevitably sending some data back (I not do Spotify - no idea what - but it must have your identification and what songs to play as a minimum). R packages are like apps. They interact with the R core and do sometimes amazing things. I think the majority do all that entirely on the machine running R. BUT some may be using external services. There is for instance a package that can interact with the Twitter API. It would be impossible to do that without sending as a minimum some login data and downloading data back. But you'd not normally send your entire research database to Twitter during the login! There will be SOME R packages that may be doing some odd stuff which might need the dataset sent to the web. I can't think of any! Then there are packages that could accidentally send data that you may or may not consider sensitive. Say for instance you have a postcode list for every patient in your research study. And you wanted to geocode that to get their location as a long/lat... you can do that in an r package - which will have to send the post code to get the answer. You haven't identified why you want the postcode... but it is patient identifiable data... That's R. Add to that R Studio (or possibly other software solutions) - which is a development environment which sits on top of R. It's often what people mean by programming in R but it's effectively a glorified text editor. R Studio desktop doesn't send data anywhere. Although it has database connectors that could (but so can excel so if IG are flipping out feel free to remind them of that!). R Studio can work with git which is a version management system and can upload code to a service like GitHub. You COULD upload data in that, or you could chose not to. And finally... R Studio has a cloud version. It looks 98% the same as R Studio desktop. Now called Posit.Cloud. That's a cloud service. While it may be secure etc -- you are processing on their server not your PC. And if this was your question - it's a whole different set of answers!! You may also want to Google NHSRcommunity where you might find help if there are IG question to address as many of us will have wrestled with an NHS IG team at some point. 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