[R] Questions about R

[Jeff Newmiller]

1. R is open source software. You are welcome to review the source code of the R interpreter for handling of PII. No warranty is offered by the (volunteer) developers of R.

2. R software is a programming interpreter, which by definition allows for a wide range of behaviours.  Users of R frequently share useful scripts and compilable source code that they have written in the form of packages. There are multiple repositories of such packages online... it is up to the consumer of any such contributed package to evaluate whether it is fit for the desired purpose.

3. See 2. Whether specific packages are out of date or not depends on the rigor of the person sharing their package... it is up to the consumer to evaluate fitness for purpose.

FWIW I have never encountered an R package that collected PII. But I have only used a few hundred out of the tens of thousands available, so YMMV.

On August 17, 2023 4:10:58 AM PDT, Shaun Parr <portvale_fc using hotmail.com> wrote:
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>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?
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>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?
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>If you could kindly advise this information, it would be really appreciated, thank you 😊
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>Shaun
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