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Most important benefit is package management and extensibility. Having two R installations on the same machine is an inconvenience.
| Implemented in | 12.5 |
This capability was implemented in Spotfire 12.5. See https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire_server/12.5.0/doc/html/TIB_sfire_server_and_environment_security/servsecurity/topics/spotfire_service_for_r.html
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I feel having the option to run R-Open Source under TSSS is more than enough in terms of web player functionality, that infrastructure exist and is fine. Now, if users are able to point the data functions to the local R-Open Source engine, there could be some performance benefits as compared to running R Open Source through TSSS, these gains could be at risk for users wanting to use R instead of TERR while running the analyst on the local environment. Regardless, I think there is value on having the option to point the data functions to run under either TERR or R Open source locally.
Yes it will greatly help to support open source R. Lots of customer want this.
Lou, It was a pleasure to meet you, as well. Please merge this idea with identical entry at https://ideas.tibco.com/ideas/TS-I-5742
Thanks for the comments, Dmytro, and it was good to talk with you about this at EARL London in Sept.
While TERR is widely used with and within TIBCO products (including Spotfire, Streambase, BE and GridServer), I do understand some customers would prefer to work with open source R. We do support integration with OS R (as well as SAS and MATLAB) through TSSS, and have considered providing direct, local integration with Spotfire clients as well.
I'd be very interested in hearing from other customers about this as well.