I have installed R 3.6.3 and re-installed all of the packages, and I unfortunately am still getting the same error messages.
I also thought that I would try the new version (3dLMEr) and there I am getting the error message that 3dLMEr: command not found (even though I installed this package, along with "phia" and "snow"), which makes me think that afni is not "seeing" my R library for some reason.
Do you have any further suggestions? Thanks!