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Anonymous
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8 years ago
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Power BI can't show basic text results via the R script visual ?

Can the R custom visual not show text results?  I just used the summary(dataset) function. And in R this properly shows the min/max/median/etc. but when I attempt the same script in R within Power...
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  • danielPrieto's avatar
    danielPrieto
    8 years ago

    Hi Anonymous

     

    As you say R script visual only show image but a possible way to display the result of summary function is to use the grid.table function of the gridExtra package . I make an example with the iris dataset. See image below.

     

     

    Surely this does not cover all your needs but I hope it will help you.

     

    Regards,

    Dani

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dannn777
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8 years ago

i believe all R output should be of image datatype rather than string.. hence "visual"

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    Anonymous
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    8 years ago

    dannn777,

    Right. But how often is something displayed that is not a visual? The Card "visual" is a good example of this where it's a single number that has to be shown. 

     

    I have linear regression model in R that is providing me with a single forecast that I would like to display in Power BI. But I can't seem to find a way to do it since Power BI can only display R visuals rather than the results of the R script itself.

     

    Jonathan