[R] Running R in a sandbox

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Antonio Rodriges <antonio.rrz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The idea is to grant access of remote users to R running on Linux.
> Users must have ability to run their
> R scripts but avoid corrupting the operating system.

 Ordinary users can't corrupt the operating system on Linux[1]. The
worst they can do is run CPU- and memory-intensive tasks that can slow
things down for everyone and conceivably bring the system to a halt,
but there are ways of limiting CPU and memory usage per user session.

 What don't you want them to do?

Barry

[1] Security holes excepted. But those will be present in any sandbox solution.