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

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)