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vicente-iii
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Problems Using Plotly to Plot Iris Dataset

Hi everyone,

 

I'm trying to make R Custom visuals with plotly and have closely followed the guide outlined here from RADACAD. However, when I imported the custom visual to Power BI, it gave me a blank visual and I do not get any error messages:

Blank visual in Power BI using Iris DatasetBlank visual in Power BI using Iris Dataset

Whereas I expect to see this:

Iris Dataset.PNG

 

Below is the R script I used (the default when downloading sampleRHTMLVisual):

source('./r_files/flatten_HTML.r')

############### Library Declarations ###############
libraryRequireInstall("ggplot2");
libraryRequireInstall("plotly")
####################################################

################### Actual code ####################
g = qplot(`Petal.Length`, data = iris, fill = `Species`, main = Sys.time());
####################################################

############# Create and save widget ###############
p = ggplotly(g);
internalSaveWidget(p, 'out.html');
####################################################

Has anyone encountered this issue before?

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v-frfei-msft
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Community Support

Hi @vicente-iii ,

 

Did you download NodeJS 4.0+ Required (5.0 recommended)  from https://nodejs.org/.

Community Support Team _ Frank
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the others find it more quickly.

Yes, I downloaded from that website. I downloaded the one on the right side (12.6.0 Current)

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