The R integration in Power BI: Why R developers should be Interested

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Power BI embeds R so you can score models from .rds inside Power BI (must return a data frame), call external APIs via R for enrichment (example: pull US Census tables), and render complex ggplot visuals with annotations and layered violin+boxplots that respond to slicers. Power BI still uses VertiPaq, Power Query/M and DAX for fast, context‑aware measures, but R fills edge cases in wrangling and data science; examples shown run end‑to‑end and code is on a public GitHub repo.

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1. 0:00Introduction to R and PBI
2. 8:07Power BI features
3. 10:35Why use R in Power BI?
4. 13:15R data integration examples
5. 15:29Advanced visualization & conclusion

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