Error Loading the Tidyverse

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Hello, I am new to using R and RStudio. I am taking a class for my University Degree and for some reason, when I try to load the tidyverse, it keeps throwing an error

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tidyverse’:
.onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'broom', details:
call: loadNamespace(x)
error: there is no package called ‘backports’

I have looked at other problems that seems similar but I am not sure what to do. I tried to see if I could install the 'backports' package because I saw other people do similar things but all I got was

Error in install.packages : object 'backports' not found

I am too scared to uninstall anything yet and I am also not exactly sure how to do it either.
I also just updated several packages and I still got the same error.

Please help!!

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my guess is that you omitted the necessary quotes around backports so that backports is interpreted as a definite string, and not a variable/object that contains a string
i.e.

install.packages("backports")

or

install.packages('backports')

but not

install.packages(backports)
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