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Connect R to a Power BI Service data flow
One (crazy) way would be to connect from Power BI to the dataflow in Direct Query Mode and then use an R visual against the dataframe.
Note that not all R libraries are supported in the Power BI service.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/service-r-packages-support
Hi - I doubt that this would be satisfactory. While R can be used in Power BI to make a visual, if its used to train a machine learning model, then there doesn't appear to be a way to reuse that model in the future.
I have to say, being able to do ETL in Power BI service and analysis in R sounds nice a nice way to operate.
As you know Microsoft is pushing their own AI/ML offerings in the Power BI service. I doubt they will go out of their way to support your use case.
