how to install R package tm in Oracle BigDataLite VM 4.7

Kevin Zhang

Hi All:

I am using Oracle BigDataLite VM V4.7. The box come with:

- Oracle R Distribution (ORD) 3.2.0

I am exploring some lab I found on web to do Oracle Text, ORE and Oracle Data Mining.

For "Oracle Text", I need to install CRAN package 'tm'.

when I try install in the R console (command: install.packages('tm')), I received below error:

ERROR: dependency ‘slam’ is not available for package ‘tm’

* removing ‘/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbhome_1/R/library/tm’

I read multiple threads and still not clear what is the correct step in install 'tm' R package in my VM so that I can proceed.

Can you help?

Thanks!

Kevin

Christos Iraklis Tsatsoulis

Hi Kevin,

Sherry is right - here are the exact details:

The latest version of tm requires slam >= 0.1-37; by default, when R installs package dependencies, it only looks at their current versions - in this case slam 0.1-40, which however is only available for R >= 3.3.1.

So, here is the exact command for installing slam 0.1-37:

install.packages("http://cran.fhcrc.org/src/contrib/Archive/slam/slam_0.1-37.tar.gz",

                  repos=NULL,

                  lib="/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbhome_1/R/library",

                  type="source")

After which, your tm installation should conclude successfully.

It turns out that version 0.1-37 is indeed the most recent one you can use (here is the complete list of older versions) - from version 0.1-38 on, slam requires R >= 3.3.1.

Hope this helps

Christos

Charlie Berger-Oracle

I don't recall the CRAN tm package requirement, but you may want to look at the standard Oracle Advanced Analytics (Oracle Data Mining, Oracle R Enterprise, Oracle Data Miner SQLDEV UI extension) and ORAAH training tutorials/resources.  Might be easier for you.  See

• Link to OAA/Oracle Data Miner Workflow GUI Online (free) Tutorial Series on OTN
• Link to OAA/Oracle R Enterprise (free) Tutorial Series on OTN
• Link to Getting Started w/ ODM blog entry
• Link to New OAA/Oracle Data Mining 2-Day Instructor Led Oracle University course. 
• Oracle Data Mining Sample Code Examples
• ORAAH Online Training

Sherry Lamonica-Oracle

Hi Kevin,

You need an older version of the slam package for R-3.2.0.  See this blog post

#6 (Installing older versions of R packages) for instructions.

Sherry

Christos Iraklis Tsatsoulis

Hi Kevin,

Sherry is right - here are the exact details:

The latest version of tm requires slam >= 0.1-37; by default, when R installs package dependencies, it only looks at their current versions - in this case slam 0.1-40, which however is only available for R >= 3.3.1.

So, here is the exact command for installing slam 0.1-37:

install.packages("http://cran.fhcrc.org/src/contrib/Archive/slam/slam_0.1-37.tar.gz",

                  repos=NULL,

                  lib="/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbhome_1/R/library",

                  type="source")

After which, your tm installation should conclude successfully.

It turns out that version 0.1-37 is indeed the most recent one you can use (here is the complete list of older versions) - from version 0.1-38 on, slam requires R >= 3.3.1.

Hope this helps

Christos

Kevin Zhang

Hi Christos/Sherry:

Thanks for the great info. I managed to installed 'tm' R package into my Oracle BigDataLite VM V4.7.0.

Thanks!

Kevin