dragosmg commented on a change in pull request #12119:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/12119#discussion_r782269957
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File path: docs/source/developers/guide/step_by_step/building.rst
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@@ -150,5 +150,13 @@ interested to find more information.
- :ref:`build_pyarrow_win`
- .. tab:: Building the R package
+ .. tab:: Building the R package
+
+ When working on code in the R package, you only need to build the
Arrow C++
+ library (often referred to in the R documentation as 'libarrow') from
source
+ if you wish to make changes to the code there; otherwise you can
install a
+ binary version of the C++ libary and then need to link it up with the
R package.
Review comment:
I think this still doesn't work - installing `libarrow` from homebrew
(on Mac) and having only the R package as `source`.
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