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crsjunior
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4 years ago

Rstudio not opening

I'm working in Power BI Desktop on the company's notebook, and don't have authorization to install programs in the  C:\Program Files. So I installed Rstudio in another directory. My Power BI isn't r...
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AlexisOlson
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4 years ago

If you want to use R in Power BI, you need to point it at the R home directory (where R is installed), not RStudio.

 

Since RStudio is a program for developing R and not the installation of the language itself, it would be a bit like linking to Notepad.exe if that's where you chose to edit your R instead.