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Lucian
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R table - dynamic column name

Hello,

 

I need a table visual in R for wich the name of a specific colum must get a value from a measure. I'm new to R but until now I could manage to rename a colum and obtain a new name using this code:

 

 

library(gridExtra)
colnames(dataset)[colnames(dataset)=="TotalBase"] <- "NewName"

 

 

So the original name "TotalBase" was transformed into the "NewName".

But how could I pass a measure value?

Is it possible to achieve something like this?:

 

colnames(dataset)[colnames(dataset)=="TotalBase"] <- Table[Measure]

 

 

Kind Regards,

Lucian

  • Hello @v-evelk

     

    Thank you for the recomended materials... There are good starting points in learning R.

    Until then... I hope I will get enough votes on the Improved table visual - dynamic column names ideea so it would be implemented without needing R. 😁

     

    Kind Regards,

    Lucian

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  • v-evelk's avatar
    v-evelk
    Microsoft Employee

    Hello,

     

    Unfortunately, I'm not an expert of R, however I can recommend you to investigate R code of other visuals to look for the answer, as this one, for instance.

     

    Kind Regards,

     

    Evgenii Elkin,
    Software Engineer
    Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals
    [email protected]

    • Lucian's avatar
      Lucian
      Responsive Resident

      Hi @v-evelk

       

      And thank you for your time. Unfortunately I'm not an R expert too... 🙄 and the recommended code is way to complex to find a "clue" to solve my problem.

       

      Maybe Microsoft will publish some tutorials specifically designed for R & Power BI... 😉

       

      Kind Regards,

      Lucian

      • v-evelk's avatar
        v-evelk
        Microsoft Employee

        Hi Lucian,

         

        Technically, there aren't so many Power BI aspects in R code for R visual. Only a couple of them is reading of format panel options and buckets to build dataset.

        In fact, to write R visual, you should know only R language.

        If you want to figure out how to work with dataset, you should learn R, may be this and that articles will be useful.

         

        Kind Regards,

         

        Evgenii Elkin,
        Software Engineer
        Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals
        [email protected]