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mars00
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Custom visual R assistance with as.POSIXct

Hi,

I'm a total novice with R and I'm trying to get the below to work, however it seems I'm using the as.POSIXCT incorrect in order to get this line: " work scale_x_datetime(breaks = date_breaks("2 hour"), labels=date_format("%m-%d %Hh")) " to work. 

Would anyone be able to assist me with this? 

 

################### Actual code ####################
as.POSIXct('Start Time',format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%OS", tz ="GMT")
as.POSIXct('End Time',format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%OS", tz="GMT")

g =ggplot(Values ,aes(x='Start Time', y=CHEID, color= HNDTYP)) +
geom_segment(aes(x='Start Time',xend='End Time',yend=CHEID),size=15) +
scale_colour_discrete(guide=guide_legend(override.aes=list(size=10))) +
scale_x_datetime(breaks = date_breaks("2 hour"), labels=date_format("%m-%d %Hh"))+
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 90, hjust = 1, vjust = 1)) +


ggtitle("Rescue by Time_Move and end_move") + xlab("Time") + ylab("Crane") + theme_bw();

below is the error i keep getting

mars00_0-1640688289387.png

 

to give a bit more context i was trying to convert this code 

 
# dataset <- data.frame(Time_Move, end_move, CHEID)
# dataset <- unique(dataset)

# Paste or type your script code here:
library(ggplot2)
library(scales)



# Convert timestamp to POSIXct and perform sort.
dataset$`Start Time`<-as.POSIXct(dataset$`Time_Move`,format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%OS", tz ="GMT")
dataset$`End Time`<-as.POSIXct(dataset$`end_move`,format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%OS", tz="GMT")



ggplot(dataset,aes(x=dataset$`Start Time`, y=dataset$CHEID, color= dataset$HNDTYP)) +
geom_segment(aes(x=dataset$`Start Time`,xend=dataset$`End Time`,yend=dataset$CHEID),size=15) +
scale_colour_discrete(guide=guide_legend(override.aes=list(size=10))) +
scale_x_datetime(breaks = date_breaks("2 hour"), labels=date_format("%m-%d %Hh"))+
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 90, hjust = 1, vjust = 1)) +
 
 
 

ggtitle("Rescue by Time_Move and end_move") + xlab("Time") + ylab("Crane") + theme_bw();

 
Kind regards, Mars
1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

But i can't seem to get the code to work when creating a custom visual, i fixed some pieces which i still did wrong, but it states it is unable to find the function while the logic does work in the R script editor.

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

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

################### Actual code ####################
dataset <- Values

dataset$`Start Time` <- as.POSIXct(dataset$`Time_Move`,format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%OS", tz ="GMT")
dataset$`end_move`<- as.POSIXct(dataset$`end_move`,format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%OS", tz="GMT")

g =ggplot(Values ,aes(x=dataset$`Start Time`, y=dataset$`CHEID`, color= dataset$`HNDTYP`)) +
geom_segment(aes(x=dataset$`Start Time`,xend=dataset$`End Time` ,yend=dataset$`CHEID`),size=15) +
scale_colour_discrete(guide=guide_legend(override.aes=list(size=10))) +
scale_x_datetime(breaks = date_breaks("1 hour"), labels=date_format("%m-%d %Hh"))+
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 90, hjust = 1, vjust = 1)) +


ggtitle("Rescue by Time_Move and end_move") + xlab("Time") + ylab("Crane") + theme_bw();
####################################################

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

################ Reduce paddings ###################
ReadFullFileReplaceString('out.html', 'out.html', ',"padding":[0-9]*,', ',"padding":0,')
####################################################



mars00_0-1641284454111.png

 

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V-lianl-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @mars00 ,

 

Power bi somehow resturns "Microsft.OleDb.Date" as the result. Please refer to R script in Power BI returns date as Microsoft.OleDb.Date - Stack Overflow 

 

1. As mentioned in the solution, first change the date type to Text type. 

2. Run the R script

3. Change the datatype back to date once the script has provided an output.


Best Regards,
Liang
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

But i can't seem to get the code to work when creating a custom visual, i fixed some pieces which i still did wrong, but it states it is unable to find the function while the logic does work in the R script editor.

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

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

################### Actual code ####################
dataset <- Values

dataset$`Start Time` <- as.POSIXct(dataset$`Time_Move`,format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%OS", tz ="GMT")
dataset$`end_move`<- as.POSIXct(dataset$`end_move`,format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%OS", tz="GMT")

g =ggplot(Values ,aes(x=dataset$`Start Time`, y=dataset$`CHEID`, color= dataset$`HNDTYP`)) +
geom_segment(aes(x=dataset$`Start Time`,xend=dataset$`End Time` ,yend=dataset$`CHEID`),size=15) +
scale_colour_discrete(guide=guide_legend(override.aes=list(size=10))) +
scale_x_datetime(breaks = date_breaks("1 hour"), labels=date_format("%m-%d %Hh"))+
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 90, hjust = 1, vjust = 1)) +


ggtitle("Rescue by Time_Move and end_move") + xlab("Time") + ylab("Crane") + theme_bw();
####################################################

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

################ Reduce paddings ###################
ReadFullFileReplaceString('out.html', 'out.html', ',"padding":[0-9]*,', ',"padding":0,')
####################################################



mars00_0-1641284454111.png

 

never mind, I forget a package and install in the code, now i just need to figgure out why the end time doesn't seem to plot

mars00_0-1641285632165.png

 

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