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Wes McKinney commented on ARROW-3204:
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I agree that this software should be made available on CRAN. Because of GPL
dependencies we (the Arrow PMC) may have to leave the actual distribution of
binaries for this software to the R community to do as it wishes. We can
develop the tools to assist with that here
> [R] Release to CRAN
> -------------------
>
> Key: ARROW-3204
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-3204
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: R
> Reporter: James Lamb
> Priority: Major
>
> As of [ARROW-1325|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1325], the
> project contains a minimal working R package that takes advantage of R's
> built-in support for calling C++ code and uses Rcpp for added support.
> Though the exact public interface of the package hasn't been developed yet
> (so this issue may be running before we walk), one major feature in its
> development will be release to [CRAN|https://cran.r-project.org/], the
> official package repository for the R language.
> Completing this story would mean:
> * Getting source code to state where [R CMD
> CHECK|https://www.r-bloggers.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-r-cmd-check/]
> passes with 0 ERRORS, 0 WARNINGS, and 0 NOTES
> * Setting up build process for source and precompiled binary packages (see
> [data.table|https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table] and
> [XGBoost|https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost] as examples of packages that do
> this)
> * Submission to CRAN and acceptance of the first release
>
> Distribution via CRAN would be a much more natural fit for most R users'
> workflows than the current build-from-source workflow, and comes with all the
> other benefits of package managers (e.g. version pegging, easy distribution
> of platform-specific binaries).
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