https://rstudio.cloud/learn/primers/2.1
On View(babynames) I am getting "unable to start data viewer"
Since this is from the cloud site I didn't see anything that said that I even had to have R installed locally? It actually states that everything is pre-loaded. This is my first look into R and was going through the sites training modules, I just need to know if it was the sites error or mine 
I was able to reproduce this problem by following along in the Primer (https://rstudio.cloud/learn/primers/2.1). I'll check with the author of that tutorial to see what the problem is.
As a workaround, if you start a new project on RStudio cloud, and run the same code, I suspect it will work correctly.
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Good to know that you can run on their virtual environment without all the scut work involved in maintaining your own system!
Thanks for finding this @ssimon. I'll need to change it: What you are looking at is an HTML tutorial made with the learnr package. AFAIK, learnr tutorials do not have a way to open the R data viewer, which is what View() opens. If you run the code (including install.packages("babynames") and library(babynames) in an R console, it should work. As you may now guess, the content for some of the tutorials pre-exists the finished version of learnr.
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