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nhs-r-community / NHSRplotthedots

An SPC package to support NHSE/I 'Making Data Count' programme
https://nhs-r-community.github.io/NHSRplotthedots/
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Add integration with e.g. PowerBI to documentation #186

Closed ChrisBeeley closed 1 year ago

ChrisBeeley commented 1 year ago

Every 3 months someone on Slack asks about using this package with PowerBI. It would be useful to add guidance on this to the docs

ThomUK commented 1 year ago

If anyone is using this package together with powerBI, please get in touch so that we can do this...

tomjemmett commented 1 year ago

I think the tl;dr is this isn't possible. There was a good talk at the NHS-R virtual conference about getting it to work, but I feel it's really outside the scope of handling within this package.

One thing that might be worth implementing is a much simpler abstraction of the logic for modifying the data; that could then just be copied manually into a PowerBI R script and used. It would need to be base R to require no dependencies, and then it would be up to the user to create the chart.

Closing for now, but happy to have it re-opened at some point if things change with the Power BI service

ChrisBeeley commented 1 year ago

Could we instead document that it isn't possible and give some pointers in the docs?