Bug in Power BI R Scripts “package … was installed with different internals”

Today I spent many hours hunting an R-script error in Power BI and before Steph Locke came up with a solution for this, I came across a couple of posts and heard of other people, having the same problem. This blogpost is to make distribution of the solution a bit easier and to hopefully to help other folks with the same problem in the future.

The Problem

When running R-scripts in Power BI, I got all sorts of error-messages who all had one thing in common: They were complaining about one or more packages being installed by an R version with different internals.

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SQL-query folding bug still alive and sucking in PowerBI and PowerQuery in Excel

Edit: There is currently no interest at Microsoft to change the current behaviour: http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/Bug-Query-folding-not-working-with-non-SQL-datasource/idi-p/225100#M11611 . I found that this workaround works also pretty well (faster in most cases), as long as your filter-tables are not too long: http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Parameterized-SQL-Query-with-query-folding/td-p/171503 Are your SQL queries that filter with a non-SQL-table slow in PowerBI and PowerQuery in Excel? Then … Read more