Unable to start data viewer

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Hello, i input a code chunk in my rmd which includes the 'View()' function. The code chunk is below:

library(ggplot2)
library(palmerpenguins)
data(penguins)
View(penguins)

I attempted to knit the rmd file and it failed, returning the error output below:

Error in .External2(C_dataviewer, x, title) : unable to start data viewer
Calls: ... withVisible -> eval_with_user_handlers -> eval -> eval -> View
Execution halted

Please help

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You can't use view() with knitted documents because there is no data viewer panel in output documents. It is only meant to be used interactively within RStudio.

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Thanks.
Please is there a way around this? I am trying to offer a preview of the data in a tabular form on the html output file.

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Data frame's knit as DataTables on HTML by default, but you can also render a DataTable explicitly to have better options control.

https://rstudio.github.io/DT/

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This has proven very useful. Thanks @andresrcs

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