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 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.