The addition of the R statistic engine/language to the Power BI platform presents a lot of possibilities for both getting new kinds of data into your model, and displaying information to users in impressive data-dense ways.
In the following recording of a presentation from the Power BI Portland User Group meetup, you’ll get a solid understanding of how R fits into the Power BI universe, what you can do with it, and walk-through examples of using it both for bringing statistical information into your model and creating some rich R visuals.