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I developed a custom R visual in Power BI desktop using the following code (this is working in the desktop version)
dataset<-data.frame(Start_Time,End_Time,Machine,Duration)
Sys.setenv(TZ='CST6CDT')
library(ggplot2)
library(lubridate)
library(scales)
ds<-dataset
output <- as.data.frame(ds, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
output$startTime2<-ymd_hms(output$Start_Time, tz="CST6CDT" )
output$endTime2<-ymd_hms(output$End_Time, tz="CST6CDT")
timelinechart <- ggplot(output, aes(color = Execution1)) +
geom_segment(aes(x=startTime2,xend=endTime2, y=Shift, yend=Shift),size=20)+theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 45, hjust=1))+ scale_x_datetime(breaks=date_breaks("4 hour"))+coord_flip()
plot(timelinechart)When I tried publishing this to web, it gives me the following error -
Error in as.POSIXlt.POSIXct(x, tz) : (converted from warning) unable to identify current timezone 'C': please set environment variable 'TZ'
I tried looking at a few posts which recommended adding Sys.setenv(TZ='CST6CDT') before library imports, but it didn’t work…
Any help with this will be greatly appreciated!
Hi @pcshingles ,
Can you help me with this error? I believe the error that I have is same as what you had in your post.
R script visual not displaying in web due to time zone error
Any help with this will be greatly appreciated!
Suraj
Hi @v-huizhn-msft,
I did take into consideration the thread you mentioned. The solution talks about setting a time zone before library imports.
That’s why I included the following in my code before library imports.
Sys.setenv(TZ='CST6CDT')
Here is a sample file...
Regards,
Suraj
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