Incidentally, you might be interested in the banner shown when R starts up:
"R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY." I believe this is standard for open source software (upon which a lot of organizations depend). In any case, that might be the most definitive and "official" answer you can get. Bert On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 9:17 AM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a volunteer Help list for users of R, which is open source, so you > can see all its code. I can answer no to your questions, unless you are > using one of R's innumerable packages that interacts with the internet and > to which the user may give personal information to enable the desired > functionality (logins, etc.). But of course how do you know that I am not > some malevolent agent or organization wishing to mislead you for my own > nefarious purposes? > > Cheers, > Bert > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 8:37 AM Shaun Parr <portvale...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> Sent from Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> >> >> >> Hi there, >> >> My name is Shaun and I work in an organisation where one of our users >> wishes to install the R software and our process is to assess the safety of >> anyone software prior to authorisation. I can’t seem to locate all the >> information that we require on the webpage, so could someone kindly advise >> me of the following information please? >> >> 1. Please can you confirm what user information the software collects >> (E.g. Name, password, e-mail address, any Personally Identifiable >> Information etc)? >> 2. If any is collected, please can you confirm if the information >> collected by the software stays locally on the device or if it is >> transferred anywhere. If it is transferred, could you please advise where >> it is transferred to (E.g. your own servers, or a third party data centre >> such as Amazon Web Services or Azure)? >> 3. Are there any third-party components installed within the software >> and, if so, are these also kept up-to-date? >> >> If you could kindly advise this information, it would be really >> appreciated, thank you 😊 >> >> >> Shaun >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
