The WPI Robotics Library is completely dependent on the hardware inside the cRIO. Most of the rest of LabVIEW is not. I've tested several non-hardware dependent algorithms on my computer, and then copied the code to the cRIO project.
If you want to play with one of the included WPI Robotics Library examples on your computer, you would need to move the example from the cRIO portion of the project to the My Computer portion. Then you would need to delete the WPI Robotics Library VIs and replace them with LabVIEW front panel objects. For example, you could replace the get analog value with a dial control, and the motor output with a slider indicator.
Since most of the included examples are so simple, there may not be much value added by doing that, but it certainly can be useful at other times. The real value (in my opinion) of the examples is seeing how everything gets wired in LabVIEW, and seeing it run on the cRIO.
