I got the same error
(base) C:\Users\CR>conda update numpy
Solving environment: done
# All requested packages already installed.
(base) C:\Users\CR>python
Python 3.6.5 |Anaconda, Inc.| (default, Mar 29 2018, 13:32:41) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import numpy as np
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\CR\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\numpy\core\__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
from . import multiarray
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Users\CR\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\numpy\__init__.py", line 142, in <module>
from . import add_newdocs
File "C:\Users\CR\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\numpy\add_newdocs.py", line 13, in <module>
from numpy.lib import add_newdoc
File "C:\Users\CR\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\numpy\lib\__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
from .type_check import *
File "C:\Users\CR\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\numpy\lib\type_check.py", line 11, in <module>
import numpy.core.numeric as _nx
File "C:\Users\CR\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\numpy\core\__init__.py", line 26, in <module>
raise ImportError(msg)