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Neal Richardson reassigned ARROW-10733:
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Assignee: Neal Richardson (was: Jonathan Keane)
> [R] Improvements to Linux installation troubleshooting
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> Key: ARROW-10733
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-10733
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: R
> Reporter: Neal Richardson
> Assignee: Neal Richardson
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 3.0.0
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> * 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; (3) if the user is on centos-7, print a special message pointing to
> the installation troubleshooting.
> * 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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