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new d9bc3b947c GH-49901: [R] Bump minimum supported R version to 4.2 now
that 4.6 is out (#49929)
d9bc3b947c is described below
commit d9bc3b947cb94fee783c2261d4090d1ed3dcf050
Author: Nic Crane <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu May 28 10:04:56 2026 +0100
GH-49901: [R] Bump minimum supported R version to 4.2 now that 4.6 is out
(#49929)
### Rationale for this change
We don't need to support R 4.1 as a new version is out
### What changes are included in this PR?
Bump minimum supported version to 4.2
### Are these changes tested?
In CI, sure
### Are there any user-facing changes?
Nope
* GitHub Issue: #49901
Authored-by: Nic Crane <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nic Crane <[email protected]>
---
dev/tasks/macros.jinja | 2 --
dev/tasks/r/github.linux.arrow.version.back.compat.yml | 14 ++------------
dev/tasks/r/github.linux.versions.yml | 1 -
r/DESCRIPTION | 2 +-
4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/dev/tasks/macros.jinja b/dev/tasks/macros.jinja
index 4edcfad3ae..8e9a41b46b 100644
--- a/dev/tasks/macros.jinja
+++ b/dev/tasks/macros.jinja
@@ -277,8 +277,6 @@ env:
{# use filter to cast to string and convert to lowercase to match yaml
boolean #}
{% set is_fork = (not is_upstream_b)|lower %}
-{% set r_release = {"ver": "4.2", "rt" : "42"} %}
-{% set r_oldrel = {"ver": "4.1", "rt" : "40"} %}
{%- macro github_set_env(env) -%}
{% if env is defined %}
diff --git a/dev/tasks/r/github.linux.arrow.version.back.compat.yml
b/dev/tasks/r/github.linux.arrow.version.back.compat.yml
index 7c2695f956..bf5300710e 100644
--- a/dev/tasks/r/github.linux.arrow.version.back.compat.yml
+++ b/dev/tasks/r/github.linux.arrow.version.back.compat.yml
@@ -90,10 +90,8 @@ jobs:
- { old_arrow_version: '10.0.1', r: '4.2' }
- { old_arrow_version: '9.0.0', r: '4.2' }
- { old_arrow_version: '8.0.0', r: '4.2' }
- - { old_arrow_version: '7.0.0', r: '4.1' }
- - { old_arrow_version: '6.0.1', r: '4.1' }
- - { old_arrow_version: '5.0.0', r: '4.1' }
- - { old_arrow_version: '4.0.0', r: '4.1' }
+ - { old_arrow_version: '7.0.0', r: '4.2' }
+ - { old_arrow_version: '6.0.1', r: '4.2' }
env:
ARROW_R_DEV: "TRUE"
OLD_ARROW_VERSION: {{ '${{ matrix.config.old_arrow_version }}' }}
@@ -102,17 +100,9 @@ jobs:
- name: Prepare RSPM
run: |
- old_arrow_version_major=$(echo ${OLD_ARROW_VERSION} | cut -d. -f1)
- if [ ${old_arrow_version_major} -ge 6 ]; then
- # Binary arrow packages for Ubuntu 22.04 are available only
- # for 6.0.0 or later.
-
rspm="https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/cran/__linux__/jammy/latest";
- echo "RSPM=${rspm}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- else
# testthat requires fs which now requires libuv1-dev. Install it
# when RSPM isn't available
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y -V libuv1-dev
- fi
- uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2
with:
r-version: {{ '${{ matrix.config.r }}' }}
diff --git a/dev/tasks/r/github.linux.versions.yml
b/dev/tasks/r/github.linux.versions.yml
index 612d84b185..644494bfba 100644
--- a/dev/tasks/r/github.linux.versions.yml
+++ b/dev/tasks/r/github.linux.versions.yml
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ jobs:
r_version:
# We test devel, release, and oldrel in regular CI.
# This is for older versions
- - "4.1"
- "4.2"
- "4.3"
- "4.4"
diff --git a/r/DESCRIPTION b/r/DESCRIPTION
index b65c95acca..d8be13cae8 100644
--- a/r/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/r/DESCRIPTION
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Description: 'Apache' 'Arrow' <https://arrow.apache.org/> is
a cross-language
language-independent columnar memory format for flat and hierarchical data,
organized for efficient analytic operations on modern hardware. This
package provides an interface to the 'Arrow C++' library.
-Depends: R (>= 4.1)
+Depends: R (>= 4.2)
License: Apache License (>= 2.0)
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/, https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/
BugReports: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues
