topic Re: Esri Shapefile in R-Powered custom visual in Custom Visuals Development Discussion

Esri Shapefile in R-Powered custom visual

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 12:04:29 GMT

I have an Esri shapefile (local on my hard drive), which i want to use in my R-Powered custom visual for Power BI. In R-Studio I can use readOGR from the rgdal-package. When I use this import method in my r-script for my custom visual), I got the following Runtime error in the developpers mode in PBI-Service:

"error in ogrInfo(dsn = dsn, layer = layer, encoding = encoding, use_iconv = use_iconv,: Cannot open data source".

Can anyone help me to fix this issue.

Thanks!

Re: Esri Shapefile in R-Powered custom visual

v-viig — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 17:28:58 GMT

File reading is not supported because R-script is executed in Power BI servers that do not have access to users' files and drives.

To workaround this issue we recommend to pass data as Power BI data column.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

Re: Esri Shapefile in R-Powered custom visual

bethk — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 16:20:47 GMT

When importing the shapefile as a datasource, instead of in the R visualisation script, the R visualisation is plotting incorrectly(differently to if you ran the full script through R), appearing like some sort of rendering issue. Has anyone else encountered this problem and know of any solutions?