Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘car’

Question

I\'m unable to load the car package in R. I tried reinstalling using

install.packages(\"car\",dependencies=TRUE)

both from R and RStudio.

Answer 1

This was just bumped to the homepage by Community. I can't take credit for the answer, but to give it a real non-comment answer:

You should upgrade R first. Then run update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE). Finally, try again install.packages("car", dependencies=TRUE). If it doesn't work, try to install package pbkrtest first. - user3710546

Given that the current version of R at the time the question was posted was 3.2.3, I think that was a good answer.