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surajt
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Error in publishing R visuals

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!

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surajt
Frequent Visitor

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

v-huizhn-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @surajt,

Have you tried the solution shared in this thread? If you still have problem, could you please share your sample table for trouble shootting the error? You can create fake data if your data is confidential.

Best Regards,
Angelia

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...

sample file 

 

Regards,

Suraj

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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