Problem with drc package

Hi,
I've installed the drc package successfully, however when I run one of its functions I get this messege.
here is my code in short (quite new to R, havnt mastered reprex/tidyverse yet, sorry...) :

library(drc)
dose <- c(0, 36, 72, 144, 288, 432, 576)
response <- c(100, 116.3949, 91.93841, 13.76812, 0, 0, 0)
Hormesis.bcm1 = drm( response~dose, fct=bcl4())

this is what I get:

Error in drm(response ~ dose, fct = bcl4()) : 
  could not find function "drm"

It means this function does not seem to exist.
When looking at drc documentation, there is no function dmc
https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/drc/versions/3.0-1

Are you sure this is the correct function?
Consult the help of the :package: to find all existing function.

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If you are looking for the drm() function, it seems to be in the package of the same name.
https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/drm/versions/0.5-8

(I haven't used drc or drm, but thought I'd point it out just in case).

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The function drm() is part of the drc package, and I should note that this code works on other pcs, just not mine.
I get this error message also when running other function such as reprex() (after calling library(reprex) of course)
Could it be that the package is not wholly installed?

library(drc)
grep("drm", ls("package:drc"), value = TRUE)
#> [1] "drm"  "drmc" "rdrm"

You're right sorry. I did not know {drc} :package: and I blindly followed the website for rdocumentation and it was not present there (strangely) :man_facepalming:

You should get an error is a package is not correctly installed. However, you can try reinstall it from CRAN with install.packages("drc", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/"), it is never a bad idea (unless you don't want the last version)

well, problem solved.. it was the anti-virus that prevented the installing of the dependencies...
thank you for your help anyway!

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Hey there,
I've been having the exact same issue, and can't for the life of me figure out what setting is messing me up. Do you happen to remember what your anti-virus was doing to block the dependencies?
Thanks!