Spotfire® Enterprise Runtime for R - Server Edition Installation and Administration

Helper packages included in the service

The following packages are included with the service to provide functionality for working with Spotfire.

Package Description
SpotfireData Contains functions for reading and writing sbdf files.
SpotfireUtils Contains functions that users can call directly from a script.
SpotfireSPK Contains a function for building and distributing Spotfire (SPK) packages. See The Spotfire Package (SPK)
For more information about the functions in these packages, load the package and read its help file.
Example
  1. On the computer running the node manager, open the R console.
  2. From the prompt, set the package path.
    .libPaths(c(.libPaths(), "<NM_HOME>/services/<path-to-spotfire-service-for-r>/library/<ver>"))
  3. Load the package.
    library(SpotfireData)
  4. Load the help.
    help(SpotfireData)