From the course: Tableau and R for Analytics Projects
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Run Rserve and establish a connection to Tableau
From the course: Tableau and R for Analytics Projects
Run Rserve and establish a connection to Tableau
- In the previous movie, I downloaded and installed the Rserve package that we will use to connect to Tableau. When you're ready to use the Tableau Workbook that includes an R calculation, you need to run Rserve and then establish a connection between Tableau and R. I'll show you how to do that in this movie. I'm already in the R console, I have Tableau running in another window. With Rserve installed, downloaded form the CRAN site I can now add it to my active library. The command for that is library. So I'll type L-I-B-R-A-R-Y, and then I need to identify the package, so in parentheses and double quotes I'll type the name of the package, which is capital R, and then lowercase S-E-R-V-E, Rserve. I'll close out the double quotes and the parentheses and press enter, and it has been added. Now I need to run it and for that it's the name of the package, (typing) R-S-E-R-V-E (typing) and then an empty double parentheses,…
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