install.packages – R: package car not loading even though carData was installed

I have been struggling to load the car package today, and given that I am rather new to R, I can’t seem to make sense of the issue. The issue is that even after installing the package necessary (carData), there is still an error message asking me to install the the package when I try loading car.

I have installed the carData package using

install.packages(“carData”)

I also tried

install.packages(“carData”, dependencies=TRUE).

R responds by asking me to restart R before installing, I tried both restarting and not restarting to see if the trouble is due to that. The output after loading the package is the following:

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.2/carData_3.0-5.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1821185 bytes (1.7 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 1.7 MB

The downloaded binary packages are in
    /var/folders/hv/v6hfqmxj4j57kq_rbw9zfnzw0000gn/T//Rtmp4vfcmV/downloaded_packages

So far so good, but then when I go for

library(car)

I get:

Loading required package: carData

Does anyone have a clue what I could do to fix it? I am running R studio version 2023.03.0+386.