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mattmagoo
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PowerBI R Plot discrepancy

Hi Guys,

 

I'm trying to display the movement of an object on a radial graph. I've managed to successfully plot the points in R and using geom_path draw a line based on the order of the records in the dataset.

 

When I apply is to PowerBI I seem to lose the order of the data and it just plots from high to low. I've attached the graphs from R Studio and PowerBI to show the difference. I'm sure I'm just missing a tiny thing, but can't figure out what it is.

 

I have the following script:

 

 

p <- ggplot(dataset, aes(extension, radius))+ geom_point(aes(extension, radius)) + geom_path() + coord_polar() + xlim(0, pi*2)
print(p)

 

 

My data is sorted like this:

 

extensionradius
 
1.90311
 
28.9289
 
1.81148
 
31.1281
 
1.7757
 
33.2769
 
1.77657
 
34.3312
 
1.77657
 
34.6795
 
1.77675
 
34.6795
 
1.77657
 
34.3312
 
1.77657
 
34.3312
 
1.77727
 
34.3312
... 
 

 

PowerBI vs R Studio

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v-viig
Community Champion
Community Champion

Please send this issue to Power BI R Custom Visuals Support pbircvsupport@microsoft.com for further debugging.

 

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

 

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

 

 

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