well, R includes a Turing-complete programming language, so I guess It really is difficult to answer NO to any of this questions? They do not seem very precise.
Kjetil On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:15 AM, mlell08 <mlel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
