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Neal Richardson commented on ARROW-5328:
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Nothing about the R package README assumes RStudio. The only installation line
that assumes you're running from R (the `install_github()` line) is easily
wrapped to run from the shell like `R -e
'devtools::install_github("apache/arrow/R")'`, though developers wouldn't use
that because you'd have a local checkout to install from.
[https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/r/README.Rmd#L85-L90] gives you
full build and test at the command line already using the build tools built
into R.
I agree that the language in the readme could be made more clear for non-R
developers, and could more clearly distinguish instructions for end users vs.
for arrow developers, but there aren't missing scripts that do magic to make a
build.
> [R] Add shell scripts to do a full package rebuild and test locally
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> Key: ARROW-5328
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5328
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: R
> Reporter: Wes McKinney
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 0.14.0
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>
> The R package development instructions in
> https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/r/README.Rmd expect that the
> developer is working in a particular R-console-centric way, perhaps within
> RStudio or similar. I think we should have scripts that enable development to
> be performed entirely on the command line. This would probably already exist,
> except that our Travis-CI setup is relying on some non-Arrow-specific scripts
> that live outside of this repository.
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