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:
> install.packages('ggplot2')
Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages("ggplot2") :
'lib = "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library"' is not writable
Would you like to use a personal library instead? (y/n) y
Would you like to create a personal library
NA
to install packages into? (y/n) y
Error in install.packages("ggplot2") : unable to create ‘NA’
I have encountered the 'lib not writable' output before but typically it offers a solution like this one:
Would you like to create a personal library
~/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4
to install packages into? (y/n) y
Any ideas why the personal library is suggesting NA? Is there a way to manually override this?
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