title: Unable to find an installation of R on the system (which R didn't return valid output); Unable to locate R binary by scanning standard locations
body: <p>Step 1: Download R-studio from </p>
  
  <pre><code>https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Step 2: Open terminal and use this command</p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo dpkg -i rstudio-1.0.136-amd64.deb 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Step 3: Launch R Studio from terminal:</p>
  
  <pre><code>rstudio
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This throws an error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Unable to find an installation of R on the system (which R didn't return valid output); Unable to locate R binary by scanning standard locations
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What's wrong here?</p>