Getting error message in R Markdown KNITR - r

I am getting a very strange issue when using R-Markdown and when I press KNITR.
Each time I run the script I get the error below.
Error in read.csv(url("https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/api/v01/dataset/NM_1_1.data.csv?geography=1249902593...1249909543&date=latestMINUS2-latest&sex=7&item=1&measures=20100")) :
could not find function "read.csv"
This code does not feature in my script and exists in another document that I had created. I have changed the folder directory, cleared the environment. Yet this annoying error keeps appearing when pressing KNITR. I have created a new file, directory everything yet it keeps appearing.
I would be grateful for any pointers.

Try to run read.csv from utils package as shown
utils::read.csv(url("https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/api/v01/dataset/NM_1_1.data.csv?geography=1249902593...1249909543&date=latestMINUS2-latest&sex=7&item=1&measures=20100"))
or
library(utils)
read.csv(url("https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/api/v01/dataset/NM_1_1.data.csv?geography=1249902593...1249909543&date=latestMINUS2-latest&sex=7&item=1&measures=20100"))

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```
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