To install R for Power BI on Windows, go through the following steps.
First, we will download R for Windows. Go to the CRAN Repository and select Download for Windows:
This will download the file below. Click to open it:
Click OK:
Click Next:
Confirm the location and click Next:
Select the files you need installed and click next. I will install on a 64-bit machine:
Select customized startup or defaults. I will select defaults:
I will check the registry entries and click Next:
Click Finish:
In the Windows Start Menu, we now see an R folder with the R Gui application. Click it:
This opens RGui. R is now ready to be used:
Open Power BI Desktop and go to Options and Settings->Options:
Select R scripting. We can see the home directory location has defaulted to the R folder we selected during the install of R:
Also note the Detected R IDEs is set to Other, as it has not detected any installed. We will install that next.
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