dependency ‘slam’ is not available when installing TM package

Question

I was able to use the library(tm) in r without problem until today, when loading tm shows:

library(tm)

Answer 1

Apparently the problem seems to be the version of R you are using. Try installing the latest version of R, 3.3.1. That should take care of it.

Answer 2

I used the following code to install the binary or the older version of slam. It worked for me.

install.packages("slam", type = "binary")

Answer 3

I had the same problem and:

• I upgraded RStudio to the latest version (1.0.143)
• I upgraded R to the latest version (R.3.3.3)
• I rebooted Rstudio
• I installed again in RStudio the package "tm"
• I ran library(tm)

and everything works fine now.

Answer 4

For R-version 3.2.3, following worked fine as mentioned in this link and it suggests this works for R-version 3.3.0 as well:

#install devtools if you have not installed 
install.packages('devtools')
library(devtools)

slam_url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/slam/slam_0.1-37.tar.gz"
install_url(slam_url)

Answer 5

I am using R3.2.5. I was trying to install "tm". I did install NLP as a dependency but gave me an error :

"package ‘slam’ is not available (for R version 3.2.5)"

The option I had to was to download the zip/tar/gz file(binaries) from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/slam/index.html and install the package. It worked for me after that. Although I am not sure what the problem is because the library information mentions it is for R (≥ 3.3.1)

Answer 6

The latest version of the package "slam" only works for R(>=3.4.0),so you can try either updating your R to the latest version or downloading an early version of the "slam" package.

This is a download link from CRAN for early version of "slam" package: https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.3/slam_0.1-40.tgz.