Using R scripts for custom visuals requires the data to be related. "Relationships – as with other Power BI Desktop visuals, if data fields from different tables with no defined relationship between...
efglynn
Advocate IV
6 years agoTo get around the restriction, create a "Dummy" dataset with nothing useful in it. Pass the Dummy dataset to the R visual and ignore it! Create the data or get the data from an R package. Not requiring a dataset for an R visual is also a good idea so a good graphics gallery can be created that could connect to data. All the graphics details of working in PowerBi can be resolved in advance before connecting to data. Troubleshooting R problems in PowerBI is not so easy, so getting the graphics to work before trying to connect to data is very useful in my mind. For example, I wasted time last week getting the data ready, and getting the graphics to work in "regular" R only to find out the R package I wanted to use was not supported (yet) in Power BI. So, now I make sure I get an R graphic created first in Power BI, before worrying about connecting to data.
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