On 12/28/2017 03:40 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 04:07:00PM +0000, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> I have a master document and several child documents that use knitr. If >> I click on "Run", which is the prompt from the master, I am still >> prompted for each child. >> >> I'm conflicted by what I think is the ideal behavior. I'm also biased >> since I find the multiple prompts annoying (but this is only temporary >> and easily solved). >> >> I suppose the way to think through it is the following: Is there an >> example where you would want to trust the parent but not trust the >> child? >> >> Perhaps you get the prompt for the parent, and say "I looked through >> this document and looked at the knitr chunks and know that none of the >> code is malicious" so I trust the document, and then a prompt for the >> child doc comes and you say "I did not know that the child doc used >> knitr, I want to check it also for malicious code". That's the best >> example I can come up with, but I'm not very convinced by it. >> >> I suppose in cases of security, unless I can make a sound-proof argument >> to get rid of the additional prompts, we should just keep them. >> >> Any thoughts? > Any thoughts?
No, but only because I do not really use such things. rh
