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is it possible to checksum a set of R scripts to ensure code integrity?
This question was inspired to a degree by How secure is R and RStudio?
It had a very reasonable answer and looking at the possibilities I thought a small system of R scripts (about 10 scripts) would be reasonably safe if we are reasonably sure that scripts and settings (.properties) files remain the same. So everything to be checked is plain text.
Are there existing schemes that would allow to hash/checksum the known set of script files and alert user if the checksum (say for one of the files) changes?
Could this be done and if so what are the downsides?
