The Spotfire Package (SPK)
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 the Spotfire Server node for use by another service.
Note: Even though they are both called “packages”, the R package
and the Spotfire package (SPK) are different.
- The R package (usually downloaded from a repository, such as CRAN) contains specialized R functions.
- The SPK is a means to deploy extensions to the Spotfire Server, which either distributes its contents to Spotfire Analyst users, or installs for a service, such as the Spotfire Service for R, to use from the Spotfire Server node.
To make it easy to create SPK files containing
R functions, use the package SpotfireSPK, which
has one function,
buildServerSPK, which creates an SPK containing packages
suitable for distribution to a Spotfire Server for use by the
Spotfire Service for R.
Note: If you are building an SPK from the R console for a Windows server,
you must have a ZIP installation on the computer where you create the SPK.
This documentation does not cover Spotfire SPKs in general, only those packages built using the SpotfireSPK package that contain R packages. For more general information about extending Spotfire using the SPK, see the Spotfire Developer documentation available at docs.tibco.com.
