Summary
In this chapter, you learned about the most popular free R engines in the community. In particular, you learned what advantages have been introduced by Microsoft releasing its distribution of R to the market. Unfortunately, this distribution will be retired in the near future.
Taking note of the unique features of Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service, you have learned how to properly choose the engines and how to install them.
You have also learned about the most popular IDE in the R community and how to install it.
In addition, you were introduced to all of the best practices for properly configuring both Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service with R, whether in a development or enterprise environment.
Finally, you've learned some of the limitations of using R with Power BI, knowledge of which is critical to avoid making mistakes in developing and deploying reports.
In the next chapter, we'll see which Python engines and IDEs to install and...
