R visuals limitations
R visuals have some important limitations regarding the data they can handle, both as input and output:
- An R visual can handle a data frame with only 150,000 rows. If there are more than 150,000 rows, only the first 150,000 rows are used and a relevant message is displayed on the image.
- R visuals have an output size limit of 2 MB.
You must also be careful not to exceed the 5 minutes of runtime calculation for an R visual in order to avoid a time-out error. Moreover, in order not to run into performance problems, note that the resolution of the R visual plots is fixed at 72 DPI.
As you can imagine, some limitations of R visuals are different depending on whether you run the visual on Power BI Desktop or the Power BI service.
To create reports in Power BI Desktop, you can do any of the following:
- Install any kind of package (CRAN, GitHub, or custom) in your engine for R visuals.
- Install only CRAN packages in your engine for custom...