I deleted all of my R packages and libraries in a lapse of judgement and now I am in a limbo where I cannot either fully uninstall or fully install R Studio

[mara]

@Rta

Now, I can't install it by downloading the installation package

Just to clarify some of the "it"s— what happens if you try to download R from here:
https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/

PS RStudio is just an IDE, (see FAQ below for disambiguation), so first thing's first, figuring out where/how to get R on your system

Differentiating R from RStudio

Aside: goals for this thread

I'm hoping this will help people disambiguate R from RStudio, and also help with getting questions in the right category. This is a bit of a mashup of the times I've tried to explain this in individual threads, so please feel free to add to this topic for further clarification/point out corrections, etc.

Before putting a code-related question in the #rstudio-ide category or using the rstudio tag, it's helpful to ask yourself: Does this work in the regular R GUI, but not when you're in RStudio? If you're using RStudio, you're using R — RStudio is just an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) in which you are using the R language. (On of my favourite fi…