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

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

Gorjanc Gregor wrote:
>> Uwe Ligges wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>> No, not everybody.  That's why I suggested 750, rather than 755.  What if
>> you changed it to 750, then changed it back to 700 after the model file
>> is read in, but before the sampling begins?  That way, it would only be
>> available as long as necessary.
> 
> But, can we actually do this directly from R?


Yes, see ?Sys.chmod
I will give it a try, but not today due to lack of time.

BTW: Is Dawn / Insightful / Tibco still present on this list???

Best,
Uwe


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