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Hover over in R visuals

lal_prasad — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:00:16 GMT

Hi All,

Is there any way to have hover over functionality in R visuals? i.e, when we move the cursor over R visuals (ex: line chart), the values respective needs to be displayed. Cant we use ggvis packages Power BI Desktop & Pro?

Regards

Lal

Re: Hover over in R visuals

fathomson — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 13:48:40 GMT

Hi Lal,

R sends the visual back as image. As long as this is the case there will be no option to have hover effects as seen on the 'regular' visuals. ggvis visuals and other R libraries who do support hovering require additional files for this to work. It would be a cool feature though:)

Re: Hover over in R visuals

boefraty — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 12:29:57 GMT

Power BI has in the backlog R custom visuals which produce HTML.

Re: Hover over in R visuals

lal_prasad — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 03:46:18 GMT

So that means we wont be able to implement hovering in R visuals (in PBI)?

If this is not feasible, Is there any way to add data labels in R visuals?

Re: Hover over in R visuals

boefraty — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 13:54:46 GMT

We are working on implementing "hover over" capability for R-powered custom visuals.

Re: Hover over in R visuals

pk_123 — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 13:15:31 GMT

any update on this?

Re: Hover over in R visuals

boefraty — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 06:54:30 GMT

Hi @pk_123,

Power BI have HTML-based R -custom visuals. For example basd on htmlWidgets and plotly.

Here is short tutorial:
https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-visuals/blob/master/RVisualTutorial/CreateRHTML.md

Here is long tutorial (still under development):
https://github.com/boefraty74/TutorialFunnelPlot

Half of the R-customv visuals in store support these features now
https://store.office.com/en-us/appshome.aspx?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&clickedfilter=OfficeProductFilter%3aPowerBI&productgroup=PowerBI

Re: Hover over in R visuals

pk_123 — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:34:57 GMT

thanks i will take a look.