How to install package tm in R-3.3.0

Question

I'm using R-3.3.3. I tried to install package tm using following commands

install.packages('tm',dependencies = TRUE)
library('tm')

But I'm getting error message

Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) : there is no package called ‘slam’ In addition: Warning message: package ‘tm’ was built under R version 3.3.3 Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘tm’

I saw two solutions for same type of error here & dependency ‘slam’ is not available when installing TM package. I tried those two but I'm getting error message like

Installation failed: Could not find build tools necessary to build slam.

Kindly suggest me how to install tm package in R-3.3.3

Perhaps slam requires RTools? Are you installing on windows? https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/ — be_green, Sep 05 '17 at 14:00
Are you limited on R-3.3.3? I've checked with R-Studio and R-3.4.1 and am having no troubles installing `slam` — smoff, Sep 05 '17 at 14:30
slam needs compilation, and as a consequence you need RTools installed to run it. — be_green, Sep 05 '17 at 14:46

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 18 '18 at 15:40

I faced the same problem today, after testing many ways to solve it I could find the following command that can install the tm package, sorry I know it is very late but still useful.

require(devtools)
install_version("tm", version = "0.7-1", repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org")

How to install package tm in R-3.3.0

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