On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, Laurence Clark wrote:
I want to download R and use it for work purposes. I hope to use it to analyse very sensitive data from our clients.
Laurence, Good choice.
My question is: If I install R on my work network computer, will the data ever leave our network? I need to know if the data goes anywhere other than our network, because this could compromise it's security. Is there is any chance the data could go to a server owned by 'R' or anything else that's not immediately obvious, but constitutes the data leaving our network?
Your sensitive data are no more, and no less, secure than any other data on your desktop computer or the company's network. Assuming company personnel and payroll data are on your local network, and proposals written with Microsoft's tools are happily created by employees, then your client data are equally secure (or at risk) regardless of the application used on them. This is a network security issue, not an R issue. Rich ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
