Function and package resources

The TIBCO Spotfire® product documentation includes comprehensive guidance on developing, packaging, uploading, and maintaining functions. Additionally, resources for R packages are readily available.

Document Name Description
TIBCO Spotfire® Package Management Contains instructions for creating a Spotfire package (SPK) containing R packages, and distributing them to Spotfire Analyst and Spotfire Web Player users. Also contains instructions for uploading an open-source R or Enterprise Runtime for R package to Spotfire Statistics Services for use with the Spotfire Web Player.
TIBCO® Enterprise Runtime for R (TERR™) Language Reference Contains help for functions in the packages available to the TERR engine. You can access the Language Reference by opening the TERRconsole, and at the prompt, type ?functionname (for functions in loaded packages), or or type help.start() to display the TERR help in a browser window.
Note: From Spotfire 7.0 or later, you can access TERR.exe, which launches the TERR console from the Spotfire Tools > Terr Tools menu.
Writing R Extensions Contains instructions for creating packages in open-source R.
Note: Open-source R is available under separate open source software license terms and is not part of TIBCO Spotfire Statistics Services. As such, open-source R is not within the scope of your license for TIBCO Spotfire Statistics Services. Open-source R is not supported, maintained, or warranted in any way by TIBCO Software Inc. Download and use of open-source R is solely at your own discretion and subject to the free open source license terms applicable to open-source R.