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I have the latest PowerBI desktop loaded on Win2008R2.
PowerBI automatically and correctly detected the R folder location as : C:\Program Files\R\R-2.15.3
I have also made sure that the above R folder is in the PATH
I have a simple R script as below:
x<-1:11
hist(x)
The Error message I get is:
Error Message:
R script error.
The system cannot find the path specified.
Stack Trace:
Invocation Stack Trace:
Error details
R script error.
The system cannot find the path specified.
Stack trace
Microsoft.PowerBI.ExploreServiceCommon.ScriptHandlerException: R script error.
The system cannot find the path specified.
---> Microsoft.PowerBI.Radio.RScriptRuntimeException: R script error.
The system cannot find the path specified.
at Microsoft.PowerBI.Radio.RScriptWrapper.RunScript(String originalScript, Int32 timeoutMs)
at Microsoft.PowerBI.Client.Windows.R.RScriptHandler.GenerateVisual(String script, String inputVariableName, IDataReader dataReader, Nullable`1 viewportWidthPx, Nullable`1 viewportHeightPx)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.PowerBI.Client.Windows.R.RScriptHandler.GenerateVisual(String script, String inputVariableName, IDataReader dataReader, Nullable`1 viewportWidthPx, Nullable`1 viewportHeightPx)
at Microsoft.PowerBI.ExploreServiceCommon.ScriptVisualCommandFlow.RunInternal(Stream dataShapeResultStream, QueryBindingDescriptor& bindingDescriptor)
at Microsoft.PowerBI.ExploreServiceCommon.ScriptVisualCommandFlow.Run(Stream dataShapeResultStream, QueryBindingDescriptor& bindingDescriptor)
at Microsoft.PowerBI.ExploreHost.SemanticQuery.ExecuteSemanticQueryFlow.TransformDataShapeResult(QueryCommand transformCommand, String dataShapeId, SemanticQueryDataShapeCommand command, Stream dataShapeResultStream, QueryBindingDescriptor& bindingDescriptor)
at Microsoft.PowerBI.ExploreHost.SemanticQuery.ExecuteSemanticQueryFlow.ProcessAndWriteDataQuery(IQueryResultDataWriter queryResultDataWriter, DataShapeGenerationContext dsqGenContext, DataQuery query, ServiceErrorStatusCode& serviceErrorStatusCode)
at Microsoft.PowerBI.ExploreHost.SemanticQuery.ExecuteSemanticQueryFlow.ProcessAndWriteSemanticQueryCommands(IQueryResultsWriter queryResultsWriter, ExecuteSemanticQueryRequest request, IConceptualSchema conceptualSchema)
Activity ID
b832ed01-aa73-ce0e-b460-9ec759b33f9e
Time
Fri Dec 25 22:55:54 PST 2015
Version
2.30.4246.281 (PBIDesktop)
Hi Geekay -
Can you try the following workaround http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Integrations-with-Files-and/R-script-unable-to-connect/m-p/12954/hig... .
I suspect this has to do with the location of the output data PBI uses for R.
Let us know if this works,
Thanks, Avi Sander (MS).
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