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

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

Rodney Sparapani 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.
> 

I just made an update in the repository.
Maybe you want to try it out.

Best,
Uwe