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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 10 months 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 11 months ago

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

tomjemmett commented 10 months 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 10 months ago

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