R script in Power BI returns date as Microsoft.OleDb.Date

Question

I\'m trying to transform a table in Power BI using the Run R Script functionality in Edit Query. The source of the table is a csv file with a colum

Answer 1

I already provided a solution in the comments, but I'll add a detailed suggestion here as well.

The applied steps in Power BI and the resulting date column should look like this:

Here are the details:

1. After loading the data from the csv file, go to Edit Queries and change the data type to text:

2. Run the R script

3. Change the datatype back to date once the script has provided an output.