<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Dec 25, 2017, at 2:36 PM, Michael Hall <<a href="mailto:mik3hall@gmail.com" class="">mik3hall@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Dec 25, 2017, at 4:31 PM, David Winsemius <<a href="mailto:dwinsemius@comcast.net" class="">dwinsemius@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Dec 25, 2017, at 1:39 PM, Michael Hall <<a href="mailto:mik3hall@gmail.com" class="">mik3hall@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Dec 25, 2017, at 3:37 PM, David Winsemius <<a href="mailto:dwinsemius@comcast.net" class="">dwinsemius@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">.libPaths() <- "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library"<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">.libPaths() <- "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library"<br class="">Error in .libPaths() <- "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library" : <br class="">invalid (NULL) left side of assignment<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Sorry. Make that:<br class=""><br class="">.libPaths("/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library”)<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I think that works for the session but it’s not persistent.<br class="">Given .libPaths as…<br class=""><br class="">.libPaths<br class="">function (new) <br class="">{<br class=""> if (!missing(new)) {<br class=""> new <- Sys.glob(path.expand(new))<br class=""> paths <- c(new, .Library.site, .Library)<br class=""> paths <- paths[dir.exists(paths)]<br class=""> .lib.loc <<- unique(normalizePath(paths, "/"))<br class=""> }<br class=""> else .lib.loc<br class="">}<br class=""><br class="">You might notice <br class="">paths <- c(new, .Library.site, .Library) <br class="">always tacks that on anyhow.<br class=""><br class="">.Library<br class="">[1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library”<br class=""><br class="">so that<br class="">.libPaths(“”)<br class="">might make more sense and also works.<br class="">But it is still not persistent. Leave the app and get back in and it’s back to including the user lib.<br class="">How do I persistently get rid of that?<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>My guess is that you are running the R.app GUI and have not unchecked the default settings in the Startup panel of Preferences:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img height="86" width="91" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="no" id="3E1B364C-7B57-4B89-AF27-4C970D5E7E07" src="cid:4EA593AB-0850-40C9-ABC3-D07897F8C085@hsd1.ca.comcast.net" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><div class="">David Winsemius<br class="">Alameda, CA, USA<br class=""><br class="">'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.' -Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>