В Mon, 2 Oct 2023 07:48:36 +0000 "Ferguson Charity (CEMINFERGUSON)" <charity.eminfergu...@gstt.nhs.uk> пишет:
> My understanding is that the R software is downloaded from a CRAN > network This is mostly true. (There are other ways of installing R, but it is most frequently downloaded from a CRAN mirror.) > and data is imported into it using Microsoft Excel for example. This is not exactly the case. It is possible to prepare data using Microsoft Excel and store it in the Microsoft Excel format, but the actual import process is performed either using base R functions (e.g. read.csv(), which is built into R), or using third-party packages running inside R (e.g. "openxlsx", which is available on CRAN) that implement the functions necessary to transform Excel format into R data structures. It is also possible to prepare data using other software, or type it manually into R, or store it only in R's native data format (using the saveRDS() or save() functions). > Could I please just double check whether any data or results from the > output is held on external servers or is it just held on local files > on the computer? As long as you're running R on your own computer, it should keep the data locally. The words of a J. Random Hacker from the Internet don't carry much weight with government agencies (as they shouldn't), but the source code of R is open to audits. Additionally, there are some guidance documents at <https://www.r-project.org/certification.html>. Note that this only covers R itself and not any third-party software packages that you could be using together with R. (You could also be connecting to an RStudio server or running an instance of webR in your web browser, in which case your data is subject to the privacy policy of the server administrators.) For example, the "googleCloudRunner" package available on CRAN is designed for the purpose of running code on Google infrastructure and will send the data there if asked to. CRAN packages are required never to do anything that might be regarded as antisocial <https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html>, but a dedicated attacker may be able to slip something past the reviewers anyway. Since your e-mail address contains nhs.uk, the <https://nhsrcommunity.com/> website could help you find the information you need. -- Best regards, Ivan ______________________________________________ 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.
