Oracle R Enterprise Server Overview

Oracle R Enterprise includes several components on the server. Together these components enable an Oracle R Enterprise client to interact with Oracle R Enterprise Server.

The server-side components of Oracle R Enterprise are: 

  • Oracle Database Enterprise Edition (64bit)
  • Oracle R Distribution or open source R
  • Oracle R Enterprise Server

Oracle R Enterprise Server consists of the following: 

    • The rqsys schema
    • Metadata and executable code in sys
    • Oracle R Enterprise Server libraries in $ORACLE_HOME/lib (Linux and UNIX) or %ORACLE_HOME%bin (Windows)
    • Oracle R Enterprise R packages in $ORACLE_HOME/R/library (%ORACLE_HOME%Rlibrary on Windows)

 

Oracle R Enterprise Server Requirements

Before installing Oracle R Enterprise Server, verify your system environment, and ensure that your user ID has the proper permissions.

Oracle R Enterprise runs on 64-bit platforms only.
  • Linux x86-64
  • Oracle Solaris
  • IBM AIX
  • IBM AIX

Oracle Database must be installed and configured as described

  • Oracle R Enterprise requires the 64-bit version of Oracle Database Enterprise Edition.

 

Installing Oracle R Enterprise Server

verify if ORACLE_HOME , ORACLE_SID , R_HOME , PATH , and LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables are properly set. For example, you could specify values like the following in a bashrc file:

export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbhome_1
export ORACLE_SID=ORCL
export R_HOME=/usr/lib64/R
export PATH=$PATH:$R_HOME/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$R_HOME/lib

 

Download Oracle R Enterprise Server

Go to the Oracle R Enterprise home page on the Oracle Technology Network:.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/advanced-analytics/r-enterprise/Opens a new window
Select Oracle R Enterprise Downloads. On the Downloads page, select Oracle R Enterprise Server and the Supporting Packages for Linux. The following files are downloaded for Oracle R Enterprise 1.4.1.

ore-server-linux-x86-64-1.4.1.zip
ore-supporting-linux-x86-64-1.4.1.zip

 

Login as root, and copy the installers for Oracle R Enterprise Server and the supporting packages across nodes. For example:

$ dcli -g nodes -l oracle mkdir -p /home/oracle/ORE
$ dcli -g nodes -l oracle -f ore-server-linux-x86-64-1.4.1.zip -d
     /home/oracle/ORE/ore-server-linux-x86-64-1.4.1.zip
$ dcli -g nodes -l oracle -f ore-supporting-linux-x86-64-1.4.1.zip -d
     /home/oracle/ORE/ore-supporting-linux-x86-64-1.4.1.zip

 

Unzip the supporting packages on each node:

$ dcli -t -g nodes -l oracle unzip<span>   </span>
     /home/oracle/ORE/ore-supporting-linux-x86-64-1.4.1.zip -d
     /my_destination_directory/

 

Install Oracle R Enterprise server components:

$ dcli -t -g nodes -l oracle "cd /my_destination_directory; ./server.sh -y
      --admin --sys syspassword--perm permtablespace
      --temp temptablespace--rqsys rqsyspassword
      --user-perm usertablespace--user-temp usertemptablespace
      --pass rquserpassword--user RQUSER"

 

Installing Oracle R Enterprise Server interactively:

$ ./server.sh -i
 
Oracle R Enterprise 1.4.1 Server.

Copyright (c) 2012, 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Checking platform .................. Pass
Checking R ......................... Pass
Checking R libraries ............... Pass
Checking ORACLE_HOME ............... Pass
Checking ORACLE_SID ................ Pass
Checking sqlplus ................... Pass
Checking ORACLE instance ........... Pass
Checking CDB/PDB ................... Pass
Checking ORE ....................... Pass

Choosing RQSYS tablespaces
  PERMANENT tablespace to use for RQSYS [list]: DATA
  TEMPORARY tablespace to use for RQSYS [list]: TEMP1
Choosing RQSYS password
  Password to use for RQSYS:

Choosing ORE user
  ORE user to use [list]:

ORE user to use [list]: OREUSER1

Current configuration
  R Version ........................ Oracle Distribution of R version 3.1.1  (--)
  R_HOME ........................... /usr/lib64/R
  R_LIBS_USER ...................... /u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbhome_1/R/library
ORACLE_HOME ...................... /u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbhome_1
  ORACLE_SID ....................... OFSAPRD1

  Existing R Version ............... None
Existing R_HOME .................. None
  Existing ORE data ................ None
  Existing ORE code ................ None
  Existing ORE libraries ........... None

  RQSYS PERMANENT tablespace ....... DATA
  RQSYS TEMPORARY tablespace ....... TEMP1

  ORE user type .................... Existing
  ORE user name .................... OREUSER1
  ORE user PERMANENT tablespace .... DATA
Grant RQADMIN role ............... No

  Operation ........................ Install/Upgrade/Setup

Proceed? [yes] y

Removing R libraries ............... Pass
Installing R libraries ............. Pass
Installing ORE libraries ........... Pass
Installing RQSYS data .............. Pass
Configuring ORE .................... Pass
Installing RQSYS code .............. Pass
Installing ORE packages ............ Pass
Creating ORE script ................ Pass
Installing migration scripts ....... Pass
Installing supporting packages ..... Pass
Granting ORE privileges ............ Pass

Done

 

References:

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E83411_01/OREAD/using-dcli-to-install-ORE-on-exadata.htm#OREAD315

About the Author

Syed Jaffar Hussain

An Oracle Database Expert for over 15 years from his 20 years of Information Technology (IT) career. Over the past 15 years of Oracle journey, he involved with several local and large scaled international banks where he implemented and managed highly complex cluster and non-cluster environments with over 100’s of business critical databases. Recognizing his efforts and contribution towards the Oracle community, Oracle awarded him the prestigious ‘Best DBA of the year, 2011’ and Oracle ACE Director status. He also acquired industry best Oracle credentials, Oracle Certified Master (OCM), Oracle RAC Expert, OCP DBA 8i,9i,10g & 11g in addition to ITIL Expertise. Syed is an active Oracle speaker, regularly presents technical sessions and webinars on various Oracle database technologies at many Oracle events. You can visit his technical blog, http://jaffardba.blogspot.com where he discuss and writes the workaround/solution about the issues confronted from his day-to-day activities. Apart from being the part of the core Technical Review committee member for a few Oracle technology oriented books, he also co-authored an Oracle 11g R1/R2 Real Application Cluster Essentials and Oracle Expert RAC books. His blog can be found at http://jaffardba.blogspot.com/

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