Spotfire® Service for R

The Spotfire® Service for R extends access to the open-source R (R) engine from the installed Spotfire client to Spotfire web client users.

The Spotfire Service for R is provided to Spotfire® Server administrators as a set of Spotfire SPK packages, in one SDN distribution file. For information about the versions of R that the Spotfire Service for R support running on, see System Requirements.

Spotfire Server administrators must install a supported version of R on a Spotfire Server node, and then install and configure the Spotfire Service for R on the same node available to the Spotfire Server. This installation provides robust predictive and computational detail to users accessing Spotfire analyses through the Spotfire web clients.

Spotfire Analyst users that have the appropriate license features can develop predictive analytics, data functions, or R expressions.
Spotfire Analyst users can run R data functions from the Spotfire Analyst client, provided that the Spotfire Service for R is deployed on the Spotfire Server the client is connected to.
Spotfire Analyst users cannot run data functions locally using this version of the Spotfire Service for R.

This document is meant for Spotfire Server administrators who need to install and configure the Spotfire Service for R, to install R packages for data functions and analyses that use them, and to review logs and troubleshoot the Spotfire Service for R.

For more information about R, see its web help.

Note: Open-source R (R) is available under separate open source software license terms and is not part of the Spotfire Service for R. As such, R is not within the scope of your license for the Spotfire Service for R. R is not supported, maintained, or warranted in any way by Cloud Software Group, Inc. Download and use of R is solely at your own discretion and subject to the free open source license terms applicable to R.