Neal Richardson created ARROW-10733:
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Summary: [R] Improvements to Linux installation troubleshooting
Key: ARROW-10733
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-10733
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: R
Reporter: Neal Richardson
Fix For: 3.0.0
* Some people think that they need to install the arrow package and then call
install_arrow... which just installs the package again. A number of packages
with external dependencies (python, etc.) have this pattern, so it's
understandable why people are confused.
* If installation fails, you get the arrow-without-arrow package, which tells
you to run install_arrow. This was reasonable advice when we first got on CRAN
and the CRAN version did not build the C++ library but install_arrow would. But
now that installation from CRAN will try to build the C++ library, if
installation failed the first time, it will probably fail the second time too.
Some possible improvements: (1) don't recommend install_arrow in that error
message; (2) set ARROW_R_DEV=true in install_arrow for verbosity, detect if
installation failed, and direct the user to report the full logs if it did.
* The linux installation vignette's troubleshooting section should prominently
recommend retrying with ARROW_R_DEV=true and reporting the logs in your bug
report. It's usually the first thing I ask in response to a bug report.
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