Now, let's start the R environment, Rserve(), and the plugin, preparing our Qlik Sense Desktop to connect to the R environment:
- Begin by running Rserve. Please locate where you have installed R and search for Rserve. Usually, it resides under C:RR-3.5.2libraryRservelibsx64:
- Copy and paste Rserve.dll, Rserve.exe, and Rserve_d.exe into the C:RR-3.5.2inx64 folder and then double-click on Rserve.exe. A command-line application will open and look something like this:
- We are going to run the SSE plugin, locate where it has been downloaded, and unzip the file you have downloaded before running the SSEtoRserve.exe program. You should see a message like the following one:
Now, you have an R installation with the proper packages running and one server with port 50051 opened to connections, so Qlik Sense can connect to the advanced analytics platform, exchange data, and perform calculations.