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rikBI
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10 years ago
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Auto refresh R source

Hi All,   We are building a powerBI dashboard with R code that gets its data from an online service. This needs to be refreshed on an hourly basis. Powerbi can't refesh this source without the powe...
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    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Hi rikBI,

    I am afraid that you are not able to properly refresh R source without installing  personal gateway. According to the article, gateway is an essential requirement in order to set schedule refresh for R dataset.

    Thanks,
    Lydia Zhang

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rikBI
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10 years ago

Hi Ankit,

 

Thank you for your suggestion. We tried that as well, but we need the R script to dynamically generate the URL.

 

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10 years ago

Hi rikBI,

I am afraid that you are not able to properly refresh R source without installing  personal gateway. According to the article, gateway is an essential requirement in order to set schedule refresh for R dataset.

Thanks,
Lydia Zhang