"installation of package ‘tidyverse’ had non-zero exit status"

[Dean_Winchester]

Below are the messages I get on the console when I try to install tidyverse.
The messages were very long and it's in the google document (link shared below).
I am running the latest version of Ubuntu on VMware.

Your help would be deeply appreciated as I am a student trying to learn some data science.

tidyverse installation error

[andresrcs]

You have a cascade of errors but all starts here

ERROR: failed to lock directory ‘/home/gjk/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.6’ for modifying
Try removing ‘/home/gjk/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.6/00LOCK-Rcpp’

Follow the indication on the error message and delete that file, then try to install again.

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[Dean_Winchester]

> library("tidyverse")
── Attaching packages ─────────────────────────────────────────────── tidyverse 1.3.0 ──
✓ ggplot2 3.2.1     ✓ purrr   0.3.3
✓ tibble  2.1.3     ✓ dplyr   0.8.4
✓ tidyr   1.0.2     ✓ stringr 1.4.0
✓ readr   1.3.1     ✓ forcats 0.5.0
── Conflicts ────────────────────────────────────────────────── tidyverse_conflicts() ──
x dplyr::filter() masks stats::filter()
x dplyr::lag()    masks stats::lag()

Thank you for assisting me as well as educating me on how to properly post on the forums.
Appreciate it!