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Pierre Gramme reassigned ARROW-17662:
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Assignee: Pierre Gramme
> [R] Facilitate offline installation from binaries
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> Key: ARROW-17662
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-17662
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Environment: linux
> Reporter: Pierre Gramme
> Assignee: Pierre Gramme
> Priority: Major
> Labels: R, install, pull-request-available
> Time Spent: 40m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> *Use case:* I'm trying to install arrow's R package on a Linux (RHEL) server
> without internet access. The server only has access to CRAN and a few other
> repo's via a mirror on intranet (Artifactory instance). In particular, no
> access to public RStudio Package Manager or to apache.jfrog.io or github.
> Currently (v9.0.0), installation script does not really foresee the
> possibility to install from binaries in such a case. By default it will build
> from source without any external dependencies, which is slow and less
> feature-rich.
> *Suggestion:* if the user has the possibility to manually download the right
> zipfile for libarrow, he can set the (new) environment variable
> `ARROW_DOWNLOADED_BINARIES` to the local path, and the installation script
> will use that pre-downloaded file.
> In addition, in case of failed download, the URL will be printed. With this
> extra info, it will be easier for the user to identify the right URL for
> libarrow zipfile and then download it manually.
>
> I just proposed a PR...
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