Installing text mining package in R on Linux

Question

I am using R version(3.0.1) on Linux Mint 16 When I tried downloading the tm package using

install.packages("tm")

it gives me an error saying:

package ‘tm’ is not available (for R version 3.0.1)

How can I possibly fix this?

P.S.-there are answers for ubuntu systems but they are too old — gonephishing, Aug 19 '14 at 18:49
`install.packages('tm', repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org')`; does that help? — bjoseph, Aug 19 '14 at 18:51
Download a version that is for 3.0.1 or older and compile it by hand. — Roman Luštrik, Aug 19 '14 at 18:53

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 19 '14 at 18:54

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cran page http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tm/index.html says : R (≥ 3.1.0).

answered Aug 19 '14 at 18:54

KevinDTimm

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

1

Download the applicable old version here and then install from source:

install.packages(file_name_and_path, repos = NULL, type="source")

edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

Community

answered Aug 19 '14 at 21:13

Michael Davidson

While there are many files out there, is there a way to know which file matches the version of R I have? – London guy Feb 27 '15 at 14:01

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