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Jacob Wujciak-Jens commented on ARROW-17224:
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{quote} I just don't hope the link to the binaries is brittle or unreliable
(you might want to check that too){quote}
Which link do you mean the RSPM link?
("https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/all/__linux__/focal/latest";)? This is will
always give you the newest version. If you want to pin a certain version you
can check the RSPM docs on how to create a time stamped link. (But I would
probably rather use [renv|https://rstudio.github.io/renv/index.html] or
[conda-lock|https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/conda-lock] if you require a
reproducible environment.)
{quote} I've also gotten it to work with the 'nightly' version hosted on
Apache. The compilation is much slower than the RStudio instructions{quote}
Yes while we have pre-compiled libarrow binaries and a script that detects
which one matches you distro best, we still need to compile the actual R
package which takes ~5 minutes. While RSPM (PPM soon :D) supplies package
binaries that don't require any compilation. An important note in regards to
the nightlies: these are 100% brittle as we only ever keep 14 versions/days
around and delete everything else. So if you require reproducibility I would
advise against using them.
I have talked to some conda-forge users and they all recommend using
[mamba|https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba] when using conda-forge packages as
it has a much faster solver. Something that might need to be added to the docs.
> [R][Doc] minor error in Linux installation documentation ('conda' option) for
> R on CRAN
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>
> Key: ARROW-17224
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-17224
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Documentation, R
> Affects Versions: 8.0.1
> Environment: Ubuntu 20.04
> Reporter: Wayne Smith
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 8.0.2
>
> Original Estimate: 2h
> Remaining Estimate: 2h
>
> The documentation for the Linux installation for the r-arrow binary for R is
> at:
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/arrow/vignettes/install.html
> The documentation indicates that the 'conda' installation syntax should be:
> {{}}
> {code:java}
> conda install -c conda-forge --strict-channel-priority r-arrow{code}
> {{}}
> I can't get that to work. What works for me is:
> {code:java}
> conda config --set channel_priority strict
> conda install -c conda-forge r-arrow{code}
> I'm wondering if the syntax presented in the documentation is either
> deprecated or incorrect.
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