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Hands-On Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense
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Hands-On Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense

by Pablo Labbe, Clever Anjos, Kaushik Solanki, Jerry DiMaso
February 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
442 pages
9h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using the R extension in a Qlik Sense application

After our preparation in the previous section, the Qlik Sense box is ready to use R as SSE. Let's carry out a simple test to check if the R installation is running properly:

  1. Open Qlik Sense Desktop (or Enterprise) and create a new application, or open an existing one.
  2. Add a KPI with this simple expression that prints a math result (1+2): R.ScriptEvalStr('print(1+2)').
  3. Verify that the Qlik Sense KPI has an output that looks like this:

If it does not print exactly 3, we have to check the logs so that we have an idea about what went wrong. Close Qlik Sense and check the logs, particularly

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