R file won't knit, saying readxl package doesn't exist - r

I'm using RStudio, and trying to knit my file to hand in my assignment. I installed the package "readxl" to read in a couple of excel files, and it worked fine in the actual coding of the assignment. But when I go to knit the file, I keep getting the error:
Error in library(readxl) : there is no package called 'readxl'
Calls: <Anonymous> ... withCallingHandlers -> withVisible -> eval -> eval ->
library
Execution halted
This is the code in question:
install.packages("tidyverse",repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org")
library(tidyverse)
install.packages("readxl",repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org")
library(readxl)
This has been frustrating me for over an hour and I just can't fix it. I can see the readxl package to the right of the console, in the "packages" tab. Any help will be much appreciated

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