Stage the Packages
Displayed here is a high-level outline of the processes of staging packages, including deploying them to a Spotfire Server package repository and, optionally, to a Spotfire Statistics Services package repository.
To stage and deploy a package in the Spotfire Server cluster and optionally the Spotfire Statistics Services cluster, follow the pictured workflow. These steps describe the numbers in the image.
- From your local TERR console, produce or download the R language packages to deploy and use. (Open the console from the Spotfire Analyst installation, from the menu.)
- Using your local TERR engine, test the package.
- From your local
TERR
engine, load the SpotfireSPK package, and then call the function to build the
SPK (passing in the path to the Debian Control File (.dcf), the SPK package
name, the SPK and any additional parameters you require).
- To distribute packages
to other Spotfire Analyst clients, call
buildSPK
. - To install packages on
the
Spotfire Server
for TERR Service to use, call
buildServerSPK
.
- To distribute packages
to other Spotfire Analyst clients, call
- Hand off both the SPK
and the R package to your
Spotfire Server
administrator. (Optionally, if you have the permissions, you can upload the R
package to an in-house repository using the drat package.)
- The administrator places the SPK on the Spotfire Server for either distribution to other Spotfire Analyst clients, or to a node running TERR Service. If required, using the TERR console, the administrator can copy the package to the in-house repository.
- If you have
Spotfire Statistics Services
in your
Spotfire Server
deployment, then the administrator logs in to
Spotfire Statistics Services
and, using the
TERR
console, installs the R package from the in-house repository to
Spotfire Statistics Services.
Note: Optionally, the administrator can use the Eclipse plugin TSSS Connector to install the package to Spotfire Statistics Services. (For more information, see the section Uploading a package using TSSS Connector.)
Parent topic: Package Workflow