Designing R chart in #Powerbi just got a lot easier for a R novice

I have for a long time had the wish to use the power of R to create some fancy visuals in PowerBI, but I simply haven’t had the time to read the manual 🙂

Then today I saw a retweet about how to make ggplot2 easily –

And thought that might be able to help me get started – AND IT SURE DID

The tools are still under development so expect a few bumps

First – RStudio

You need to install RStudio on your computer to support the Addin. So if you haven’t done so already – go to https://www.rstudio.com/

To install the addin you can follow the instructions on the github site for the addin – https://github.com/dreamRs/esquisse

Simply insert this in code window and run it

R-Studio will then install the addin and all its help files etc.

Now we can run the addin by running this line

esquisse