Uploading a package to Spotfire Statistics Services from another computer

If your installation of Spotfire Statistics Services is not connected to the internet, but you have administrative privileges to log on to the server, you can still install packages on it.

You can upload two types of packages by copying them to Spotfire Statistics Services.
  • You can upload packages that have been created and built for your Spotfire Statistics Services installation.
  • You can use another computer that is running the same operating system, and that is connected to the internet to download a package from a repository.

Prerequisites

You must have either a built binary package or access to a computer on the internet.
Note: Binary (built) packages are required. Source packages must be built before they can be uploaded to Spotfire Statistics Services.

Spotfire Statistics Services accepts .zip archives (Microsoft Windows servers only) or tar.gz archives (Linux servers only).

You must have administrative credentials to log on to the server where Spotfire Statistics Services is installed (or you must give the package archive to a server administrator to upload them).

Procedure

  1. From the internet-connected computer, make sure that TERR or open-source R (and optionally RStudio) is installed.
    Important: The computer you use to download packages must be running the same operating system as the Spotfire Statistics Services server. (That is, Windows or Linux. If Linux, it must be the same version of Linux.)
  2. Start a console or, if available, an RStudio session.
    Tip: If you are running the console from Microsoft Windows, from the Start menu, right-click the application, and then select Run as administrator so you can install the package into the engine's site-library directory. Otherwise, you are prompted to create a personal library. If you select that option, make a note of the location so you can find the package.
  3. Open the directory where the package (and any dependent packages) downloaded, and using an archiving utility, create a .zip or a .tar.gz archive that contains all files and directories included with the download.
  4. Copy the resulting archive to a medium (such as a flash drive) or a network location that your server can access.
  5. If you have access, log on with administrator credentials to the server where Spotfire Statistics Services is installed.
    If you do not have administrative credentials, ask your server administrator to help you.
  6. Insert the flash drive into a port on the server, or from the server, map a network drive to the package archive location.
  7. Browse to the installation of Spotfire Statistics Services and open the library directory for the appropriate language (TERR or R).
    This path should look like SPSERVER_HOME/engines/eng/library where SPSERVER_HOME is the installation and server context, and eng is the language engine, such as R or TERR.
    Windows example: C:\Program Files\TIBCO\statsvcs1141\TERRServer\engines\Terr\library
  8. Copy the zipped archive of the package(s) from the medium or network drive to the library directory, and then unzip them there.

What to do next

Validate the package.