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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
to give a bit more context i was trying to convert this code
Solved! Go to 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,')
####################################################
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,')
####################################################
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
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