Error: package or namespace load failed for 'caret' (conda environment with r-base = 4.4.3 and r-essentials)

Set-up

conda version 24.7.1

Created new environment in anaconda prompt:

conda create --name r_env2 conda conda-forge::r-essentials conda-forge::r-base=4.4.3

Confirmed that r-essentials included caret (6.0_94) and modelmetrics (1.2.2.2).

Started jupyter notebook:

jupyter notebook

First code ran in the notebook (kernel set to R) was:

library(caret)

Problem

After running library(caret), an error window pops up:

The procedure entry point _ZSt21ios_base_library_initv could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\Users\my_user\anaconda3\envs\r_env2\Lib\R\library\ModelMetrics\libs\x64\ModelMetrics.dll

Then, the following error shows in the notebook:

Loading required package: ggplot2

Loading required package: lattice

Error: package or namespace load failed for 'caret' in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...): unable to load shared object 'C:/Users/my_user/anaconda3/envs/r_env2/Lib/R/library/ModelMetrics/libs/x64/ModelMetrics.dll': LoadLibrary failure: The specified procedure could not be found.

Traceback:

1. tryCatch({ . attr(package, "LibPath") <- which.lib.loc . ns <- loadNamespace(package, lib.loc) . env <- attachNamespace(ns, pos = pos, deps, exclude, include.only) . }, error = function(e) { . P <- if (!is.null(cc <- conditionCall(e))) . paste(" in", deparse(cc)[1L]) .
   else "" . msg <- gettextf("package or namespace load failed for %s%s:\n %s", . sQuote(package), P, conditionMessage(e)) .
   if (logical.return && !quietly) . message(paste("Error:", msg), domain = NA) . else stop(msg, call. = FALSE, domain = NA) . })
2. tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
3. tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
4. value[3L]
5. stop(msg, call. = FALSE, domain = NA)
6. .handleSimpleError(function (cnd) . { . watcher$capture_plot_and_output() . cnd <- sanitize_call(cnd) . watcher$push(cnd) . switch(on_error, continue = invokeRestart("eval_continue"), . stop = invokeRestart("eval_stop"), error = NULL) . }, "package or namespace load failed for 'caret' in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...):\n unable to load shared object 'C:/Users/my_user/anaconda3/envs/r_env2/Lib/R/library/ModelMetrics/libs/x64/ModelMetrics.dll':\n LoadLibrary failure: The specified procedure could not be found.\n", . base::quote(NULL))

I am unsure as to why I am getting this error since this is a fresh environment with the r-essentials and r-base installed using the conda-forge channel, and the modelmetrics packages seems to be the correct version (1.2.2.2).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!