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yoshihirok
Post Prodigy
10 years ago
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R script for starting.

I want to a R script for starting R script in Power BI Desktop. Just like "Hello World" of some programming language.   I want to start the R language by Power BI Desktop.   Example:   How to t...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I suspect querying the Iris data set is the closest thing to a hello world in R (it's a built in set of data on flower petal sizes, kind of the R equivalent to Adventureworks). Try this as a script.

     

    class(iris)
str(iris)

IrisInput <- iris
tenaciousdata's avatar
tenaciousdata
Advocate I
10 years ago

BarneyL,

 

Thanks for the hello world example.

 

Can you add how you would use the iris data in Power BI desktop and plot it.

 

Asking for a friend :-)

tenaciousdata's avatar
tenaciousdata
Advocate I
10 years ago

Also,

 

Any ideas when generating the "Iris" dataset, one would get a

 

"Details: "ADO.NET: R script error.
Error: could not find function "Class"
Execution halted"

 

error.

 

Thanks.