Use Tableau with R

Intro

Tableau Desktop supports integration with R. (Tableau Online/Public don’t support R.)

More info can be found from this whitepaper: Using R and Tableau Software

Basically you need to install Rserve first by the following commands:

install.packages("Rserve")
library(Rserve)
Rserve()

Then connect Tableau to the R Server. Follow the steps in this video tutorial:

How to integrate R and Tableau

Or this article: How to use R Studio with Tableau

And use R scripts in Tableau’s calculated field. There are four functions:

• SCRIPT_REAL
• SCRIPT_STR
• SCRIPT_INT
• SCRIPT_BOOL

They each return a real number, string, integer, and boolean.

Video tutorial: Bring your R Scripts to Tableau

More examples using R in Tableau

http://www.tableau.com/about/blog/2013/10/tableau-81-and-r-25327

http://www.simafore.com/blog/bid/120209/Integrating-Tableau-and-R-for-data-analytics-in-four-simple-steps

https://www.r-bloggers.com/dream-team-combining-tableau-and-r/

https://boraberan.wordpress.com/