On 04/03/06, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've made two changes for R 2.3.0 > > 1) as the LibPath is not actually used, it is recorded as "". (For > compatibility we don't want to remove the field.) Since it was returned > but not printed by help.search(), the actual installed path is returned > instead. (Given that the return format of help.search is undocumented, I > don't see how anyone could have made use of it without realizing it was > subject to guesswork and to change.) > > 2) hsearch.rds could usefully be stored in compressed format, and so will > be.
I would like to thank you and Dirk for your answers (and Peter Daalgard FWIW :-). My concern was that R could use that path in some way. Usually this is not a problem because as Brian clearly told that path will be inexistent, the problem would exist if this temporary path could be exploited maliciously to inject code into R. I hope that these concerns don't sound too far fetched since sometimes the temporary directories are world writable. Thank you for the change, I am glad to see that this will be addressed for 2.3. Best regards, -- José Abílio ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
