Enabling Analytics for Everyone!
In part 1 of this series, I gave you a couple of reasons to start using R for visualizations in Power BI.
In this part I’ll tell you about the things I discovered and the problems that I ran into in this preview version.
Please note that the remarks below count for the december 2015 version of Power BI Desktop.
R script visuals is still a preview, things might change in later versions.
First we got Get Data through R Script in beta.
Not much later, we got Custom Visuals through R Script as well.
Everyone was happy…
Twitter went crazy with happiness…
No blogs followed…
“On the fields of Trenzalore, at the integration of R in Power BI, when no living creature can speak ill of R, a Question of how to use it will be asked, a question that must never, ever be answered.”
Read on to learn why R is included in Power BI and if it is something you should even care about. (hint: of course! 😉 )