R 3.4.1 “Single Candle” Personal Library Path Error: unable to create ‘NA’

Question

I just updated to R (3.4.1 \"Single Candle\") on my Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon machine and I attempted to install a package. R returned the following:

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Answer 1

I don't know what's causing this problem (i'm also experiencing it on Ubuntu 16.04), but here's a quick workaround:

.libPaths(c("/home/your_username/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/", .libPaths()))

Of course, you can replace "/home/your_username/..." for any another directory (that will store your personal library).

This solution makes install.packages() and library() work. Waiting for a full fix!

EDIT: I should note that this solution is not persistent. That is, it won't last after restarting R. You can fix this by adding the same line of code described above to the /home/your_username/.Rprofile file.