Manage Packages Using Spotfire and TERR
Analysts and data scientists can download existing packages, or they can build and test their own packages. They can wrap them in a Spotfire SPK for distribution to analysts in their organization. Spotfire Server administrators can distribute the packages using Spotfire Server, and Spotfire web client users can view Spotfire analyses that use the packages.
Note: Because this
documentation specifically addresses using
TERR
in
Spotfire Analyst,
the instructions demonstrate using the
TERR
tools available from the
Spotfire Analyst
user interface. Experienced R or
TERR
programmers, or programmers using
TERR
from the stand-alone console can perform many of these tasks directly from the
console or from within RStudio. See the
TERR
Technical Guide and
Language Reference for more information.
For the following tasks, Spotfire products each play a role in building, distributing, using, and maintaining packages in the Spotfire predictive analytics platform.
- Develop Packages for Use with the TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R Engine
Spotfire Analyst provides both a console application and access to an installation of RStudio so experienced R developers can create and test packages to use in Spotfire analyses. - Packages Running on a Local TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R Engine in Spotfire
Running functions locally requires making the TERR engine available under Spotfire. - Overview of Spotfire Packages
A Spotfire SPK is usually created and tested by developers to package and deploy third-party extensions to the Spotfire Server, which can then be distributed to Spotfire Analyst users, or distributed to the Spotfire Server node for use by another service. - Spotfire Package Maintenance
Package maintenance includes updating package versions, removing obsolete packages, or adding new packages to the SPK distribution. It also includes ensuring that everyone using a package is using the same version.
Parent topic: Package Management for the Spotfire Environment