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

My solution was the following:

In the file /usr/lib/R/etc/Renviron there is a configuration of R.

In lines 43-45 there is:

# edd Jun 2017  Comment-out R_LIBS_USER
#R_LIBS_USER=${R_LIBS_USER-'~/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4'}
##R_LIBS_USER=${R_LIBS_USER-'~/Library/R/3.4/library'}

I have uncommented R_LIBS_USER=${R_LIBS_USER-'~/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4'}, restarted RStudio and now it works.

EDIT: Looking at the comments, it seems like a planned behaviour. Here is another solution.