Hi, On 24.09.2012 16:21, Zastko,Samuel ALB co-mw wrote: > Hi everyone, > want to use R in our company but have to complete an intern questionnaire > first. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance! > Here the questions I’m not sure about: > 1. Is R a Clientsoftware / Serversoftware / Systemsoftware? This is a strange choice. what would you answer for e.g. Excel?? It's most certainly no Server. It's not a Client, because there is no "R-Server". But R can establish connections to several Server Types, for example to download data. R Packages can extend R's funcionality What's "Systemsoftware"??
> 2. Does R need a “chellenge-response” treatment for activation? Dunno what "challenge-response" is. But R is open-souce, no activatoin required. > 3. Is R proxy-able? HTTP-Proxying seems to work, google "GNU R proxy" and see <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#The-Internet-download-functions-fail_002e> > 4. Is the personalised WINDOWS-NTLM-authorization at ISA-proxy possible? Don' know. But you can run R without any changes to a Windows system, like registry entrys and such. Copy the folder and execute R.exe > 5. Are any exceptions for virus scanner needed? If yes, which ones? No. > 6. Does R changes system files or folders? (e.g. system32, registry). If > yes, which ones? No. Regards, Moritz -- GnuPG Key: 0x7340821E ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
