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hiimhp
7 years agoMicrosoft Employee
Connecting to R dataset - unable to connect
Hi! I am getting an error when I try to follow the steps in the doc here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-r-scripts Essentially I would just like to try to run an R script to connec...
mskim
7 years agoRegular Visitor
It seems to be R-3.6.0 cause this error.
I install R-3.5.3 side by side and configure it to R home directory in PBI Desktop.
Then error message dissapears.
- ImkeF7 years agoCommunity Champion
Thanks, but this didn't resolve the error for me unfortunately.
- elenton7 years agoHelper II
id installing a lower version also and this didnt resolve it for me either, although i did leave the higher version installed, did that need uninstalling or shoudl i just have had to change the version in power bi (which i did)
- Anonymous7 years agoNot applicable
Same error here
- ImkeF7 years agoCommunity Champion
Don't think that this will resolve it.
On 3.6.0 I get the exeption-error from above and if I go down to R Open I receive an empty table (while RStudio shows 2 tables of data).
So this is still buggy, unfortunately.