[R] Confirmation of no Electronic Communication functionality

[Ben Bolker]

   This reminds me a little bit of working in a secure data center (no 
external network connections from any of the workstations) where the 
security policy did not allow shell access, but did allow R (disallowing 
it would have crippled half of the projects using the data center).  I 
didn't go out of my way to tell them about system() ...

   cheers
     Ben Bolker

On 12/13/24 11:04, Sergei Ko wrote:
> I suspect it might be relevant for RStudio, but definitely not for pure R.
> On top of that you can just copy R to a flash drive or any accessible
> folder. It will work.
> Regards,
> Sergiy
> 
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2024, 15:56 Bert Gunter, <bgunter.4567 using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, Ivan. Exactly my reaction.
>>
>> And as a Turing complete language, R allows one to do anything in R --
>> including writing an email package that does email directly from R:
>> see package emayili .
>>
>> Indeed, I think one would find it difficult to find *any* software
>> that does not interact with the internet in some way these days.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bert
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 7:35 AM Ivan Krylov via R-help
>> <r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Edward Woo,
>>>
>>> Welcome to R-help!
>>>
>>> В Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:24:18 +0000
>>> Edward Woo via R-help <r-help using r-project.org> пишет:
>>>
>>>> need an email confirming that r does not include any electronic
>>>> communication functionality within the program
>>>
>>> Could you please provide a definition of electronic communication
>>> functionality? (For example, does download.file() or install.packages()
>>> count as one?)
>>>
>>> There may be some documents useful for you at
>>> <https://www.r-project.org/certification.html>.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>> Ivan
>>>
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