
Extending Power BI with Python and R
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There is more than one R distribution available on the market that you can use for free for your advanced analytics projects. In this section, we'll explore the main details of each of them.
When it comes to installing the R engine, we almost always think of the open source software environment par excellence, developed by a collective of contributors over the years, known as CRAN R, also called base R (https://cran.r-project.org). To be exact, the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) is a network of web servers and FTP servers around the world, whose goal is to preserve multiple identical and up-to-date versions of the R source code and the entire ecosystem of R packages developed by the community, along with all the R documentation.
One of the biggest advantages of CRAN R is its very active community of developers. Their contribution to the creation of new packages on CRAN is invaluable. That's why if you think...