R update/new instalation not loading:

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Ubuntu 22.04
In try to update R to 4.2.0 I following the instructions at CRAN I have managed to really muck things up.

john@john:~$ sudo apt install --no-install-recommends r-base
[sudo] password for john: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
r-base is already the newest version (4.2.0-1.2204.0).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
john@john:~$ R --version
/usr/local/lib/R/bin/exec/R: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.67: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
john@john:~$

Is it worth trying to install libicuuc.so.67 ?
BTW if I do

cat /usr/local/lib/R/bin/exec/R

it looks like I have a compiled file. Does this make sense?

Weirdly enough, when I did the install I found the R 4.2.0 folder in my Downloads folder and not in Home folder where I would have expected it. After it did not load from there I moved it to the Home folder in some kind of desperate hope that it was a weird path mixup.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

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I seem to have cured the problem. After mucking about I finally deleted

/usr/local/bin/R 
and it seemed to cure the problem.
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