r - 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)

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

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)