Hello, I am new to this program. I initially installed both R and R Studio 3 months ago, easily and got a d-base icon from the package I needed, and saw my tables in spreadsheet form in studio. Now, everything has disappeared on its own -seriously nothing changed. When trying to get my package back, I get this: Error: could not find function "intall.packages" Installing package into ‘/Users/Computer/Library/R/3.1/library’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) trying URL ' http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/SoDA_1.0-6.tgz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 255365 bytes (249 Kb) opened URL =================================================downloaded 249 Kb The downloaded binary packages are in /var/folders/bd/7z7gw4w953sd0tmgsrhdqw680000gn/T//RtmpTAMQLx/downloaded_packages var is a private directory. Though I can pull individual tables from the package (Lahman), they are now unlinked. SQL and stat commands are rejected by R and Studio. I tried about 2 dozen methods of changing the directory, specifying .lib and libPaths, (at least the ones online I understood), and nothing worked, I moved the package (Lahman) to an R directory, but I did not see it, and there seems to be no way to turn it back into a working d-base in the working dir complete with icon suggesting it is locked and loaded. I have tried clean installs of everything, yet R-Studio seems to remember what I did last (I don't know how). I need this back the way it was: a functioning d-base from Lahman package in R-Studio and R. Suggestions seriously needed. It seems unfixable, and the "var' problem seems very rare. Thanks for reading this. Cheers, RCD [[alternative HTML version deleted]]