assignUser commented on code in PR #38220:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/38220#discussion_r1356048095
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r/vignettes/developers/setup.Rmd:
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@@ -38,50 +38,49 @@ set -e
set -x
```
+The Arrow R package is unique compared to other R packages that you may have
+contributed to because it builds on top of the large and feature-rich Arrow C++
+implementation.
-```{bash, save=run & windows, hide=TRUE}
-# For some reason CRAN Mirror goes missing in CI
-echo 'options(repos=structure(c(CRAN="https://cloud.r-project.org";)))' >
$HOME/.Rprofile
-```
-
-Windows and macOS users who wish to contribute to the R package and
-don't need to alter libarrow (Arrow's C++ library) may be able to obtain a
-recent version of the library without building from source.
-
-### Linux
+## Option 1: Using pre-built libarrow binaries
-On Linux, you can download a .zip file containing libarrow from the
+On Linux and MacOS, you can download a .zip file containing libarrow from the
[nightly repository](https://nightlies.apache.org/arrow/r/libarrow/bin/).
The directory names correspond to the OpenSSL version the binaries built with:
-- "linux-openssl-1.0" (OpenSSL 1.0)
-- "linux-openssl-1.1" (OpenSSL 1.1)
-- "linux-openssl-3.0" (OpenSSL 3.0)
-Version numbers in that repository correspond to dates.
+- "linux-openssl-1.0" (OpenSSL 1.0, e.g., Centos7)
+- "linux-openssl-1.1" (OpenSSL 1.1, e.g., Ubuntu 18.04)
+- "linux-openssl-3.0" (OpenSSL >=3.0, e.g., MacOS or Ubuntu >= 20.04)
-You'll need to create a `libarrow` directory inside the R package directory
and unzip the zip file containing the compiled libarrow binary files into it.
+Version numbers in that repository correspond to dates. Use the version with
+the highest number (i.e., that was modified most frequently).
-### macOS
-On macOS, you can install libarrow using [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/):
+You'll need to create a `libarrow` directory inside the R package directory and
+unzip the zip file containing the compiled libarrow binary files into it.
Review Comment:
Here is the PR with the latest nightly search + some bonus refactoring
^^)https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/38236
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