I am returning to RStudio Cloud for teaching. I used it well for two years. I created projects and was able to have students open them and save their edits as Permanent Projects.
However, today I have been creating new projects and then looking at them as a 'viewer' . The button "Save as a Permanent Copy" seems to have gone. See image:
This thread says this may be because the project is "derived" Button "Save Permanent Copy" does not appear - yet I have run some test projects that are not derived, and I seem to be getting the same issue.
It turns out that a viewer cannot create projects in a space. It would have to be a contributor to be able to create a permanent copy. Please test with a contributor and let me know how it goes!