Re: [Bugs-r-devel] Mac bug regressions

[Uwe L. <li...@st...>]

Rodney Sparapani wrote:
> Uwe Ligges wrote:
>>
>> Indeed, after all, I start thinking that we need a separate package 
>> R2wineWinBUGS package for wine. The code with workarounds that makes 
>> special cases for wine becomes bigger than the original package.
>>
>> Anyway, I do not have a nice short term solution, I have to admit: 
>> Hard to do sensible things without having temporary directories. So we 
>> need to write our own tempdir() function for use under wine now.
>>
>> Uwe
> R2WineBUGS?  Well, I don't know if it requires a fork.  I thought you were
> going to say that this was as easy as a system() call to loosen up the
> permissions.  


Well, I do not want to make the tempdir insecure. It might be used by 
other packages as well and users might expect privacy of their data. 
Consider you have data from patients of a clinical trial. Everybody 
using the same machine could access and read temporary data in that 
case. We should not use dirty tricks. We have problems enough telling 
people that R *is* secure given no contributed packages are installed.

Uwe


> Am I way off base here?  I'm not a real strong R user
> so I could be wrong.  But, I guess it's about time that I got my hands
> dirty.  Any suggestions for developers docs welcome?  Thanks.
>