Suddenly error 'Cannot create a RasterLayer object from this file.' in script that worked before

I have a script where I read a raster stored as .tif :

f_treecover   <- raster('Landcover_data/treecover_res_100_q.tif')

The script used to run fine a few months ago, but now I get the following error message:

Error in .rasterObjectFromFile(x, band = band, objecttype = "RasterLayer",  : 
  Cannot create a RasterLayer object from this file.

I can read the file with the 'rast' function in terra:

f_treecover   <- rast('Landcover_data/treecover_res_100_q.tif')      
> f_treecover
class       : SpatRaster 
dimensions  : 1400, 3600, 1  (nrow, ncol, nlyr)
resolution  : 0.1, 0.1  (x, y)
extent      : -180, 180, -60, 80  (xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax)
coord. ref. : +proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +no_defs 
source      : treecover_res_100_q.tif 
name        : treecover_res_100_q

However, all the other objects in the script are RasterLayers , so I need this object to be one as well. I tried coercing the resulting SpatRaster into a Raster with

raster(f_treecover)

, but that leads to the same error message as when originally trying to read the .tif file.

I probably installed an updated version of the raster package in the meanwhile (now using 3.4-10), could that be causing the issue?

Solution

Finally, the problem was solved by completely removing and re-installing R. I had tried that earlier but apparently the un-installation was incomplete, as evidenced by the fact that packages I had installed previously were available again upon re-installation of R.