dependency ‘slam’ is not available when installing

Question

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

library(tm)

Loading required package: NLP

Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]) :

there is no package called ‘slam’

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tm’

I thought this is a dependency issue and seek to reinstall package

install.packages("tm")

Warning in install.packages : dependency ‘slam’ is not available

and then try to find slam:

install.packages("slam")

Warning in install.packages :

package ‘slam’ is not available (for R version 3.2.4)

I also tried some of the issues listed here and chooseCRANmirror(), still no luck. Is there something wrong with the package or is it just that my r does not allow 'slam' to install after today?

session info

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.2.4 (2016-03-10)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
Running under: OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] NLP_0.1-9

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] parallel_3.2.4 tools_3.2.4 

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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 3

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 4

I faced this error while installing the "tm" package on R version 3.3.0. Seems like some missing libraries. After I could install the latest version 3.4.1 , i was able to install the package "tm" which installed the 'slam' on its own. Hope this may help somebody.

Answer 5

I had the same problem as you.
Slam "Depends: R (≥ 3.3.1)", this why I had to perform the following actions to successfully install and load "tm" package:

1. Update R from 3.2.5 to the latest version 3.3.2

2. install.packages("tm")
   also installing the dependencies ‘NLP’, ‘slam’ package ‘NLP’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package ‘slam’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked package ‘tm’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

3. library(tm)

Answer 6

For any such type of issue regarding package not installed, update your R and later reinstall the package. These are the steps you follow:

if(!require(installr)){ install.packages("installr")}

require(installr)}    #load the package

updateR()