New information:
I have installed a previous version of r-studio (rstudio-1.3.1093-amd64.deb) as was implied in the link that @MViking sent me, and know I am getting a more informative error.
Firstly, at the terminal I get the following message:
"Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'notifyRCrashed' of undefined"
Then, the popup window of rstudio appears as shown below:
Problem solved by installing the default R and rstudio version!