New to R Studio. library(devtools) not loading. Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘devtools’. Is there a way out? - r

Question

I am new to RStudio.
I am trying to load devtools so that I can install packages from github
So basically what I am trying to do is:
install.packages("devtools")
load(devtools)
install_github("author/package")
Ideally these three steps should have gone through without a hitch. But this is what happened.
library(devtools)
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘devtools’:
.onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'pkgload', details:
call: NULL
error: package ‘backports’ does not have a namespace
What do I do? I am completely new to this.
Here's the whole console
> install.packages("devtools")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Rohan Gopakumar/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
binary source needs_compilation
devtools 2.3.0 2.3.1 FALSE
installing the source package ‘devtools’
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/devtools_2.3.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 373604 bytes (364 KB)
downloaded 364 KB
* installing *source* package 'devtools' ...
** package 'devtools' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Error: .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'pkgload', details:
call: NULL
error: package 'backports' does not have a namespace
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'devtools'
* removing 'C:/Users/Rohan Gopakumar/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/devtools'
* restoring previous 'C:/Users/Rohan Gopakumar/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/devtools'
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘devtools’ had non-zero exit status
The downloaded source packages are in
‘C:\Users\Rohan Gopakumar\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpasaxsp\downloaded_packages’
> library(devtools)
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘devtools’:
.onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'pkgload', details:
call: NULL
error: package ‘backports’ does not have a namespace