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I can not run R in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

I would like an help from an error that I am experiencing after installing R. I followed all steps from "https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/fullREADME.html#installing-r" to install R in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. However, the following error is reported after starting R in my terminal: "/usr/local/lib/R/bin/exec/R: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.72: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory". Is there anyway to fix it?

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    It looks like the lib is not found, try the following steps:

    sudo apt install libicu72

    it may also be a path issue, check your path with:

    echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

    If the path is empty attempt to set it:

    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/libicu/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH  # Replace path with actual location
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    I can run R just fine on some Ubuntu 24.04 containers as for example rocker/r2u:noble:

    $ docker run --rm -ti rocker/r2u:noble bash
root@ddcecd84f2b5:/# cd
root@ddcecd84f2b5:~# R

R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14) -- "Race for Your Life"
Copyright (C) 2024 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

  Natural language support but running in an English locale

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

> q()
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n
root@ddcecd84f2b5:~# 
root@ddcecd84f2b5:~# apt update -qqq
root@ddcecd84f2b5:~# apt-cache policy r-base-core
r-base-core:
  Installed: 4.4.1-1.2404.0
  Candidate: 4.4.1-1.2404.0
  Version table:
 *** 4.4.1-1.2404.0 500
        500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu noble-cran40/ Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4.4.0-2.2404.0 500
        500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu noble-cran40/ Packages
     4.3.3-2build2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
root@ddcecd84f2b5:~#

    This is the standard package from the standard R backport at CRAN. What do you have?

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