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sguenther
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7 years ago

R Script not working as expected

Hi all,

 

I'm faced with the following problem:

I have a list of website pages, which I would like to group in different content groups based on regex matching. The only way to set this up in the Query Editor is via an R Script. This is how I set it up:

 

 

# 'dataset' holds the input data for this script
filter <- "(www\\.simscale\\.com\\/|www\\.simscale\\.com\\.googleweblight\\.com\\/)blog\\/(.*)"

# Define Functions
checkComp <- function(f) {grepl(f , as.character(dataset$"Initial Landing Page"), ignore.case=TRUE)}

returnComp <- function() {
	if (checkComp(filter)) {
		result <- "Blog"
	} else {
		result <- "Other"
	}
        return(result)
}

output <- within(dataset,{"Test"=returnComp()})

 

dataset$"Initial Landing Page" is the column that contains the page URL.

 

The problem is that the returnComp() function always returns "Other". I tried everything. Testing this function in an online R tester works as expected. Just in PowerBI it doesn't work. There seems to be an issue when I pass the column to the function. But I don't know what else to try.

 

The column containsthe URLs in plain text, like this: https://www.simscale.com/blog/2016/11/learn-finite-element-analysis-fea/

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