Spotfire® System Requirements

TIBCO® Enterprise Runtime for R 6.0

The TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R engine is included with your installation of Spotfire Analyst. If you have a Spotfire Server with a node running TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R - Server Edition (the TERR service), then you can share advanced analytics with Business Author and Consumer users. TERR is also available on TIBCO Cloud™ Spotfire®.

For a list of which versions of TERR can be found in versions of Spotfire Analyst and Desktop, see https://spotfi.re/community/terr-versions.

Hardware
Processor
  • Intel Core i5 or equivalent), 64-bit
Note: Only amd64 (also known as x64, x86_64) architecture is supported.
RAM
  • Minimum: 4 GB.
Hard disk space
  • Minimum: 200 MB
Software
Operating system
  • Microsoft® Windows
    • 10
  • Microsoft Windows Server
    • 2022
    • 2019
    • 2016
  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL)
    • 8 (Intel/AMD x64)*
    • 7 (Intel/AMD x64)
  • SUSE® Enterprise Linux
    • 15 (Intel/AMD x64)*
  • Debian*
    • 11 (64-bit on x86-64)
    • 10 (64-bit on x86-64)
Important: * If you plan to run the TERR console on RHEL 8, CentOS 8, or SUSE Enterprise Linux 15, then before installing TERR, you must first install the library libtinfo.so.5, which TERR requires to run on those operating systems.
  • For RHEL 8 and CentOS 8, install the package ncurses-compat-libs.
  • For SUSE Enterprise Linux, install the package libncurses5.
  • For Debian, install the package libtinfo5.
Note: 64-bit operating system strongly recommended.
Software
Optional: RStudio, RStudio Server1 1.3.10932
Java 11 3
Optional: Spotfire TERR is included in an installation of Spotfire; however, you can run TERR as a console application apart from Spotfire.
1 RStudio is available under separate open-source software license terms. Spotfire does not warrant, deliver, or support code or other material provided by Posit Software, including but not limited to development tools and packages, and such code or other material does not constitute a part of the TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R engine.
2 TERR has been tested for compatibility with the versions of the RStudio IDE listed here. Not all features are supported, and compatibility with future RStudio releases is not guaranteed. For more detailed compatibility information, type help.start() at the TERR command line, and in the resulting landing page, click the link Technical Documentation, and then open the topic "Configure RStudio to use TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R".
3 The following packages supplied with TERR require a bit-matching (32 bit or 64 bit) version of Java and must have the JAVA_HOME environment variable set to the location of a tested version of Java.
  • parallel
  • sjdbc
  • terrJava