trying to install R, but no ldpaths and Renvirons is missing

Posted on August 17, 2020

I am trying to install R, using apt-get but I keep getting this error:

/usr/bin/R: line 248: /usr/lib/R/etc/ldpaths: No such file or directory
cannot find system Renviron

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Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘utils’:
 .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'utils', details:
  call: options(op.utils[toset])
  error: invalid value for 'editor'
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘stats’:
 .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'utils', details:
  call: options(op.utils[toset])
  error: invalid value for 'editor'
During startup - Warning messages:
1: package ‘utils’ in options("defaultPackages") was not found
2: package ‘stats’ in options("defaultPackages") was not found

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