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7 years ago
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Advantages of using R in Power BI

I know there are 3 ways of using R with Power BI: import, data transformation in Power Query, and custom R visuals   From my understanding it seems that using custom R visual is the only one that h...
  • v-yuta-msft's avatar
    7 years ago

    Anonymous ,

     

    Do you mean the advantage of using R script in power query, right? Reasons are as below:

     

    You can use R, a programming language widely used by statisticians, data scientists, and data analysts, in the Power BI Desktop Query Editor. This integration of R into Query Editor lets you perform data cleansing using R, and perform advanced data shaping and analytics in datasets, including completion of missing data, predictions, and clustering, just to name a few. R is a powerful language, and can be used in Query Editor to prepare your data model and create reports.

     

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