[R] securing R code....

[Eric Berger]

Do you make regular backups? If not, this should push you into such a
routine.
One approach is to use an external drive. External drives are not expensive
and can typically have plenty of room to hold all your code and data.
Just before having your computer serviced, copy your code and data onto the
external drive. Erase your sensitive data from your computer and get it
serviced.

By the way, you can make the backup effort easier by organizing all your
code and data into a directory tree, so that you just do a recursive copy
of the root folder onto the backup system and you are done. (i.e. a simple
command. Depending on the amount of data to be copied this may take some
time to complete.)

HTH,
Eric


On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 6:41 PM David Winsemius <dwinsemius using comcast.net>
wrote:

>
> On 10/26/20 7:17 AM, akshay kulkarni wrote:
> > dear members,
> >                               I am a stock trader. I am using R for my
> research.
> >
> > I want to service my laptop, wherein resides all my R code, which, for
> obvious reasons, has to be secured. I am using Windows 7 Ultimate.
> >
> > I cannot encrypt the R data by Bitdefender, as it encrypts the entire
> drive.
> Use a file encryption program or create an an encrypted directory to
> store your sensitive files. Veracrypt is a widely used cross platform
> solution. I was under the impression that Windoze 7 was now inherently
> insecure because it is past end-of-maintenance life  and there are many
> unpatched security holes.
> >   I anyway need to give the key when the system, if at all, gets locked
> when servicing.
> >
> > My cousin suggested backing up the data and deleting that data in the
> laptop when giving it for servicing. How do you back up the R data?
>
> > What is the file name that contains all the workspace in windows 7?
> .Rdata
> > .RHistory only contains the previous commands. Can I delete only all the
> data/code without deleting the R GUI?
> Yes. Many people recommend not using the .Rdata mechanism at all, and
> instead maintaining a record of how the session proceeded along with  a
> bundle of the input data or at least  those portions that were
> successful in your eyes.
> > The extreme option would be to delete the whole of installed R GUI,
> after backing up the workspace. Some other way to secure the data/code?
> .Rdata is only a file. You could sorre it in encrypted form with Veracrypt.
> >
> > I've tried using Backup and sync by google, but that is very cumbersome.
> >
> > Please help.
> >
> > thanking you,
> > Yours sincerely,
> > AKSHAY M KULKARNI
> >
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> You should learn to post in plain text.
>
> --
>
> David.
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